The whole #covid19 pandemic is an amazing opportunity to gear up for the next level. For every single organization looking to hire for the best employees out there, here’s just 2 words: Go Remote! Treat this international situation as an opportunity to hire remotely. And Here’s why: A person who says he / she will work remote has already ticked off a lot of boxes - They’re self motivated They learn on their own They can work with a broad requirement and dig around to get work done. Read more

We run our infra on AWS Fargate. This means docker images. Our docker image is based on debian buster packaged with Ruby 2.6.5. Of late, we’ve had crashes on and off everytime the container boots up. They all have the same symptom: Rails tries to load the sassc gem and it barfs! The biggest problem is the unpredictability of the crash. It might happen. It might not! If you run rails and make use of the sassc gem which you most probably will do, you might run into a problem when the gem is loaded: Read more

As part of my home server setup (which warrants a post very soon), I’ve setup a DNSCrypt resolver. This was heavily inspired by Abhay (Nemo) who’s setup a DNSCrypt resolver on Digital Ocean in Bangalore. My server takes the second number for DNSCrypt resolvers in Bangalore, INDIA. Here’s the configuration for the tech guys and hence the TLDR;: ProviderKey A6FA:B764:A3D7:A1C7:208D:11DA:0184:8602:81A5:0887:BC42:3DDE:FD33:CF77:0B7A:EFFF ResolverAddress 106.51.128.78:4434 ProviderName 2.dnscrypt-cert.qag.me The server does not respond to insecure DNS requests on port 53. Read more

2018 has started off slow, but steady. I’ve promised myself to NOT set any resolutions to keep up / follow for 2018. I’ve also promised myself to concentrate on one thing and ONE thing only. Get things done. One thing at a time. Well, in that regard, I’ve finally gotten around to setting up my Home server - It now hosts the following: My personal document store My mail server / MX (Huge shout out to the ACT tech team for getting this done quick) - separate blog post coming in soon My web server + test bed Things to come soon: Read more

The IT industry needs Bouncers A doctor is supposed to invest time as a student, work as an apprentice and then gain a post-graduation to be able to get into an operation theatre and perform surgery on a human. To top it all, they’re required to swear by an Oath to protect human lives and act with compassion. Why is it then that a an engineer is not required to undergo any of this jugglery? Read more