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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Did my longest road trip ever 🎉

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 month

Excellent blog post

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

6 months

I really wonder how dumb (or overconfident) one has to be to think people won’t notice a poorly designed thin wrapper on GPT 3.5 and release it in public.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

5 months

*Ticket for a bug in prod* Me: checks in my local dev machine, all fine and dandy. Please don't malign my code.

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@RailMinIndia

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The present video of the coach. No overcrowding. Please don't malign the image of Indian Railways by sharing misleading videos.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 months

paying credit card bill on Cred

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@KameronBennett

5 months

Bro just wanna eat 😂😂 stop playing around

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

Posting fake WhatsApp conversations to earn brownie points on social media has become a rather stupid trend.

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1 year

A few days back, the dev team in the company hired a backend intern. Yesterday, they gave him a task. The intern said he can't complete the task now as ChatGPT is down And he refuses to write the code for the job he was hired for. Lol, what's wrong with interns now? They

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

Just gonna leave it here @memenetes

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

@GergelyOrosz Shared our experience of logging here, maybe it’ll help:

Logging at Zerodha - Zerodha Tech Blog

Our migration story from ELK to using Clickhouse and Vector for our logging pipeline

zerodha.tech

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

Happy to open source our Terraform orchestration modules that we use internally at @zerodhaonline for deploying and managing @HashiCorp Nomad clusters on AWS 😄 Check it out:

GitHub - zerodha/nomad-cluster-setup: Terraform modules for creating Nomad servers and clients...

Terraform modules for creating Nomad servers and clients nodes on AWS. - zerodha/nomad-cluster-setup

github.com

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

6 months

So, we got married! 💍🎉🍾

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

7 months

Excited to co-author this post with @iamd3vil for the @zerodhaonline tech blog ✨ How we generate, digitally sign, and e-mail out 1.5+ million PDFs, as mandated by regulations, in about 25 minutes with a fully self-hosted distributed architecture:

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Sharing a small side/fun project I did in last couple of days. It generates a portfolio of random stocks and shows whether that portfolio has beaten the underlying index.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

11 months

using bare metal servers on vultr is called moving out of "cloud".. I feel enlightened

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@arpit_bhayani

11 months

Has a CTO ever killed his production on a live podcast? ⚡ @subhashchy actually killed his production while we were recording this podcast to demonstrate a live production failover and that too on his bare metal infrastructure 🔥 Recently, Dukaan® ditched the public cloud and

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

Postcards from a 1300km road trip alongside the beautiful Coastal Karnataka 🏝️☀️

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 years

Seriously @Paytm ? I've not availed any loans from this BS. When I click on the notification it landed me on signup page for Paytm Postpaid. Disgusting way to increase your click through rate. 😡

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

Farewell, Apollo. 😔

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

I'll be lying if I said I'm not distracted by this view 😍

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

This week, I complete 5 years at @zerodhaonline 😄 It's been such a great learning opportunity ever since I joined.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

5 years

Wait, what? :O You can jump to func definitions on Github?! THIS IS AWESOME @github

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

10 months

Recently I came across @sadservers_com - a platform with linux/ops challenges to fix broken servers in a given time window. Thought to record and share my solutions to some of the interesting problems:

SadServers

Solving a bunch of challenge scenarios presented in sadservers.com

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Omg is this guy really using a $5 droplet to host his static website when he could actually be using EKS + CI/CD + 10 different microservices + service mesh to achieve the same thing??

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 months

Made this little expense tracker for myself!

Building an expense tracker app

How I built an expense tracker app with Go, Vue.js and a dash of AI

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Wrote a disk based KV store in Golang by implementing Bitcask.

Writing a disk-based key-value store in Golang

Implementation of Bitcask to implement a key-value database in Go

mrkaran.dev

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Excited to have been nominated as @HashiCorp Core Contributor 2022 for Nomad 😬

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 months

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

This scene from French Biryani is as @peakbengaluru as it gets

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

Stoked to share my learnings from developing an infra monitoring stack built using @PrometheusIO @grafana @MetricsVictoria , in the second post of @zerodhaonline engineering blog. ✨✨

Infrastructure monitoring with Prometheus at Zerodha - Zerodha Tech Blog

How we developed a hybrid multi-DC and cloud monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Victoria metrics for monitoring system, app and service, and also business metrics.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

this shark tank judge keeps asking unit economics from every contestant. itna dhyaan apne loss making business mein bhi de do bhai

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

11 months

shutds down an api gateway node and wow "failover" much cool. i thought stateless services are built for redundancies and not failovers but i am not a cool kid

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

We ( @zerodhaonline ) are looking for a Devops Engineer who can help us build scalable infra as we grow. You can apply at or DM me if you want more details :) Spread the word 🙏

Job Openings at Zerodha

careers.zerodha.com

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

Wrote a post on migrating from ELK to Clickhouse for storing app logs @zerodhaonline ✨

Logging at Zerodha - Zerodha Tech Blog

Our migration story from ELK to using Clickhouse and Vector for our logging pipeline

zerodha.tech

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Monisha beta “No middlemen” bolo. Yeh “self service only” signage is too middle class.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

So single that I read w/o as without.

Poan Sapdi

@Poan__Sapdi

2 years

This is how being only single in family looks like in wedding invitation :p

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

Important scaling lessons learnt at @zerodhaonline shared by Kailash Nadh! ✨

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 months

cooked a web ui for generating @HashiCorp Nomad job specs.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Imagine over optimising your life so much and still yearning for brownie points and validation from social media.

Tanay Pratap

@tanaypratap

2 years

Peak productivity unlocked today. Took meeting while getting a haircut. The staff were the sweetest to stop music while I took the meeting. Startups are not for everyone. The only time you get when you’re not working is while you’re sleeping.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

Sometimes @DuckDuckGo just leaves you pleasantly surprised

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Amazing weekend spent at #IndiaFOSS conference organised by @FOSSUnited folks. Met so many familiar faces after 2 years 😊

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

9 months

Go + net/http + stdlib for pretty much everything. Forward compatibility has been great. I’ve rarely seen a Go program fail on an upgrade of runtime.

Jason Leow

@jasonleowsg

9 months

I wish there's a framework where I can leave it for 10 years and it still runs

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

5 months

3rd time in a row :) Grateful to @HashiCorp and the Nomad community 💚🙏

Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Excited to have been nominated as @HashiCorp Core Contributor 2022 for Nomad 😬

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

It's year 2050 and AWS Console UI still randomly changes account region and shows 0 resources to give that minor heart attack. 😡

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

just go to loud pubs playing bollywood music and have shitty bar food, because what else is left in these "metro" cities

ಪೂರ್ಣಾ ರವಿ | Poorna Ravi

@prism_colours

1 year

I am very curious to know what these people think parks are meant for. 'Couples can't get too close, food not allowed, photos/videos banned, can't play sport or climb tree' - what is left?

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

5 years

Yes please. cc @memenetes

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Bhimtal has such a calm vibe to it 🥹🥰

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

🎉 Announcing 🐶 doggo! It's a Command-line DNS Client that I wrote as a fun side project. Check it out:

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

woke up to this 🥺🥺🥺

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

8 months

Over the last few days I attempted #1BRC in Go and managed to hover around ~20s on a 10 core machine! Reading file in chunks was the crucial bit in this version. More CPUs will def help to bring down the time. Blog link in 2nd tweet.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

I was googling something related to Nomad, found a reddit post...then the comments? 🥲

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

7 months

Interesting napkin math for FIRE numbers.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 years

Anyone who says "it's easy to blame govt but we as collective people are also to be blamed." Just seriously fucking STFU and demand accountability FOR ONCE. Stop your goddamn narrative when 1000s are dying daily. Fucking shameless.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 years

I cannot stop appreciating elegance of @HashiCorp Nomad.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 months

Tech Twitter talking about “full stack frameworks” and what not while missing the big picture. 1.5RPS is a joke honestly. Like a stdlib Go’s HTTP server could do 10000x of that on a potato VM.

Nate Berkopec

@nateberkopec

4 months

A typical Rails app will serve up to 1.5 requests per second per vCPU. With tuning plus an optimized app, that can be up to about 5 requests per/sec/vCPU. So these days, vertical scaling can buy you 75-250 requests per/sec for 350 a month… not bad. ~5-10x better than Heroku.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Made a web utility to share sensitive text with others!

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

✨ Wrote a small post on monitoring my home network! Thanks to @oddtazz for giving the insights in his setup from which I took inspiration from :)

Monitoring my home network

Setting up a home network monitoring stack built with Telegraf, Grafana and Raspberry Pi

mrkaran.dev

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

This whole zero downtime migration is so overrated 🙃. Treat your self hosted servers like pets, give them some rest. 🌻 🧡

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

I’m 🤯 on how CF published the RCA blog post on the same day after suffering a P0 outage. And the post not only tells the issue but gives sufficient background context as well. 👏👏 Good stuff @Cloudflare

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 years

Excited to be talking about @HashiCorp Nomad Events at #HashiTalks next week.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

11 months

@kish2011_ neither gives bragging rights to indicate "move out of cloud". that term is typically when you run your own DC. this is simply switching providers for cheaper costs. And every major cloud provider gives you an option run dedicated (another term for bare metal) instances.

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@mrkaran_

5 months

"The most egregious thing you can do with any activity is daydream about how you can make money off of it. That’s the quickest way to optimize for the wrong things and suck the fun right out of it." 💯💯

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

7 months

> login to netbanking after a few months > password expired. change. cannot be same as last 3 passwords > otp to confirm password change > start a new session, re-enter password > get login otp *forgets the reason i logged in for*

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

When you get meme'd at work. 🙈🙈

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

8 months

High time @WhatsApp introduces a Promotions tab so I can quickly select and delete all those junk messages from companies who use WhatsApp to send BS.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

10 months

@championswimmer Isn’t this Apple’s inability to keep up with the changes even after a year or so?

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 months

I kinda disagree. When I was younger I had so much time to experiment with distros/tools/editors/configs etc. Now I just want something with sane defaults and good out of the box experience 🙈

DHH

@dhh

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It's actually the same thing with Linux. I know others feel differently, but I think most beginners and early stage developers are actually better off just using a Mac (or Windows). Less room for error, more guardrails. Level up in a safe space, then explore the world.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 months

Just created an interactive demo of a 3 node raft cluster with various scenarios using Claude 3.5 and... it's so freaking amazing.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

8 months

Reading QR codes without a computer!

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 years

Automating vaccine slot bookings is one way to tell you know programming but lack empathy.

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@mrkaran_

2 years

Yep, that’s precisely what I was doing at #IndiaFOSS @FOSSUnited 😝 Read this excellent recollection of one of the most amazing conferences I’ve ever attended by Kailash!

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 years

Having a friend you can vent out to, trust them for a good advise and have no judgements whatsoever is a goddamn blessing. And it gets harder to find such people as you adult.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 months

This is lovely, thank you @shantanugoel !

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 months

Hey @mholt6 querying all common records with doggo is now possible! 😃

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

@mehulved He thinks he’s writing a “cool” story by pushing to prod at 6AM while listening to Pink Floyd. Lol such hackathon vibes. But the premise of this thread couldn’t be any more heartless.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

🥲🥲

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Happy to have contributed my first PR to @VictoriaMetrics ! Added support for discovering @HashiCorp Nomad services to `vmagent` 👀

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

9 days

not me using dns as my todo list.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

Weekend Hack: Setup a single node @HashiCorp Nomad+Consul server for self hosting my workloads. Coming from K8s, Nomad is definitely a *fresh* experience and nails the UX. 1/2

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

5 months

postcards from europe! 🇨🇭🇮🇹🇦🇹

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

Wrote my experience of setting up @HashiCorp Nomad/Consul for my personal server.

Running Nomad for home server

Setting up a single node Nomad and Consul server to deploy self hosted workloads.

mrkaran.dev

Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

4 years

Weekend Hack: Setup a single node @HashiCorp Nomad+Consul server for self hosting my workloads. Coming from K8s, Nomad is definitely a *fresh* experience and nails the UX. 1/2

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

🚗 Roadtrips in 2022: - McLeod, Dharamshala - Ludhiana, Patiala, Chandigarh - Jodhpur, Jaisalmer - Bhimtal, Nainital - Lucknow, Varanasi 2023 shall hopefully be more about visiting southern and north eastern parts which are in my list since forever 🥹🙃

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Mondaying. 🏖

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

5 years

Janta! I created a playlist to discover some of the underrated Indie artists. It's time you show your ♥️ to the amazing amazing music they have all produced and get them the recognition each one of them deserves ⭐

Joy of Indie

Playlist · mrkaran · 243 items · 425 likes

open.spotify.com

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@mrkaran_

1 month

@_svs_ Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon is the best thing you can get in India. Using it as work laptop since quite sometime. Otherwise @system76 is top notch.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

5 months

Wrote about my @Tailscale exit node setup.

Travelling with Tailscale

How I used Tailscale exit nodes and various IP routing hacks to achieve selective routing with exit nodes

mrkaran.dev

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

7 months

changed my life, ngl. Such a great opportunity for college kids.

Dmitry Vyukov

@dvyukov

7 months

Google Summer of Code is turning 20! It's a good chance for students to get industrial OSS experience and contribute to real projects. Official student applications will be open in a month, but it's a good time to start looking for potential projects #gsoc

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

It pays off *much much* more to write better code, have a leaner stack and meaningful service oriented architecture than optimise for server costs by switching to bare metals.

Ajey Gore

@AjeyGore

1 year

Have you ever been able to cut cloud spend proactively? Also what prevents us from using bare metal servers in early days? (They might be a lot cheaper) No, I am not looking for auto scaling argument here?

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 years

Pretty cafe and a nice view 🥰

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@mrkaran_

2 years

You appreciate more of this when you write programs in Go.

Arpit Bhayani

@arpit_bhayani

2 years

Programming is easy, but Java makes it frustratingly difficult. Instead of business logic, Java makes us focus on abstraction & extensibility. A simple IF is required to be modelled as multi-level abstraction, because SOLID, whyy! Verbosity does necessarily improve readability.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

5 years

If anyone wants a real quick Brexit overview, checkout today's @finshots newsletter. Such succinct writing skills. 👏👏

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@mrkaran_

1 month

@vladimirprus I agree with you. adding complexity where it’s not required is what I wanted to highlight.

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@mrkaran_

2 years

Twitter laid me off today memes are just so unfunny and might actually be a little insensitive to folks who actually got laid off.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

Analyzing credit card transactions with GPT and Python

Extracting spending patterns from Credit Card statements using ChatGPT and Python

mrkaran.dev

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 months

been a couple of months since Spotify didn’t auto renew and forced myself to use YT Music. I don’t miss it even one bit and actually find better curated playlists based on my mood. Thanks RBI 🤭

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

6 years

Made a tool to analyse your swiggy orders and track how much you're spending, what you're ordering the most etc. 🙈😅

GitHub - mr-karan/swiggy-analytics: Analyse your swiggy orders 🍔

Analyse your swiggy orders 🍔. Contribute to mr-karan/swiggy-analytics development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

1 year

if you're a big enough customer, they even suggest solutions and architecture revamps to bring your overall costs down (with no hidden incentives), which IMHO is not something other cloud vendors can even think of doing.

Gergely Orosz

@GergelyOrosz

1 year

Talking with devs at AWS & AWS customers, one thing that AWS does better than almost any vendor: Talking to customers. Ask yourself: which other vendor called you, to want to meet and have *their PM* directly talk to you? AWS does this all the time. Hard to believe but true:

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

2 months

Rockset leaving their paying customers with just 3 months to migrate should be a nudge to move away from proprietary dependencies for business-critical stuff. Ofcourse, you can always learn it the hard way.

Ben Kraus

@kraustifer

3 months

fuck. @RocksetCloud !! NOOOO! Rockset is a critical part of our business, and giving us only a couple months to build an alternate solution for our DynamoDB analytics sucks bad. It's tightly integrated into our Retool internal tool.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 years

Got the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 finally after a wait of 4 months! 🎉

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@mrkaran_

1 year

Used Namma Yatri for the first time today. Couldn’t help but notice how it’s so nicely designed + clean UI. Gets the basics absolutely right. 💯 The open dashboards are also quite interesting to look at.

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Karan Sharma

@mrkaran_

3 months

stop gatekeeping man! I get exploring the local food and culture and all that jazz. but one of the most satisfying meal for me in a 3 weeks long Europe vacation was to have a nice enough scrumptious butter chicken.