I was always a thin guy growing up. In college, I was 6 feet tall and weighed around 65 Kg (143 lbs). I could walk long distances, but I could barely run. I would get tired immediately and could not play most sports. I could barely carry my own luggage. After joining a job, I…
I needed a new laptop for quite some time as the current one is almost 10 years old. I have been using a 2012 Thinkpad T530 which is very capable and built like a tank. It has survived two drops from 3-4 feets with only minor damage. Unfortunately it weighs like a tank too. The…
I work in a very small team of three engineers which does not leave much room for dedicating resources for managing infrastructure. We wanted explore managed AWS solutions so that we can focus on delivering features without worry about scaling the infrastructure or dealing with maintaining servers. This post briefly describes the new technologies that…
Screen is a program that runs in terminal and allows you to create multiple terminals with one ssh login. It runs in background so that you can attach to the same session if ssh disconnects. Its particularly useful when you are using mobile data or have to leave some process running in foreground. You can…
During migration of a website which has not been updated in a while, it occured to me that docker will be ideal for this website. It did not have a lot of traffic and business impact was also less. So I gave myself a few days to deep dive and learn it. The documentation and…