nginx rewrite to https
This block redirects all http requests to https
```
server {
listen 80;
if
Engineering👨💻
All about engineering - philosophy, opinions, best practices, approaches, tutorials. No code, mostly.
Webhooks
Webhooks explained with analogy
Mongos balancer process
Problem Statement:
Whenever mongos balancer is running, the cluster gets insanely slow.
Mongo Operations
This is with assumption of you're using either AWS or Google Cloud.
Kafka rebalancing topics between brokers
To discard an old set of kafka brokers and migrate them to
Kafka ops: Migrating from ec2 classic to VPC
A few strategies for migrating Kafka to new cluster from classic to
Most interesting outage postmortems
> How few services of hostedgraphite not hosted on AWS, got affected by
mongodb pause ttl
The following command can be used to pause mongodb ttl for 86400
Quick AWS commands
Uploading custom ssl certificate to AWS Cloudfront:
aws iam upload-server-certificate --server-certificate-name
Few Logrotate Configs
Logrotate is a linux utility which rotates files upon certain conditions.If
Rolling update on AWS Autoscaling
AWS autoscaling groups let you manage a set of instances and scale
move a folder to other git repo
To move a sub-directory/folder to other git repo. Let's leave the