Recent Projects
A few things I've built recently.
Recent Posts
Occasional yapping.
The Pied Piper Peril: A Shortage Story
Lessons from Silicon Valley's Pied Piper: why unprepared scaling leads to outages, and how real-world platforms avoid disaster through proactive testing, resource planning, and resilient architecture.
Optimizing Costs and Performance With Bare Metal and Cloud
How companies are slashing cloud costs by switching to bare metal—exploring the hidden overheads of cloud VMs, the performance benefits of direct hardware, and real-world savings from hybrid infrastructure strategies.
Why Dukaan Ditched the Cloud for Bare Metal
How Dukaan cut cloud costs by nearly 50x and boosted performance by moving core infrastructure to bare metal—while using the cloud for backups and smart global load balancing.
My First GSoC Attempt
Reflecting on my first GSoC attempt—building a TUI for Sugar, learning Docker Swarm, drawing inspiration from K9s and Helm, and growing through open source collaboration.
Stack
Tools I use.
Express.js
Node.js framework
Flask
Python microframework
FastAPI
Python API framework
Hono.js
Edge runtime framework
Spring Boot
Java framework