Feb 28, 2021Keeping code DRY and generic with JenkinsRecently, I had a chance to work on CI (Continuous Integration) for one of the clients I’m working with. They were using a single node Jenkins server for all the automation. Microservices architecture is followed where there are roughly 20 services running in production. All of these needs to go…Jenkins5 min readJenkins5 min read
Jan 31, 2021A tale of Docker and Linux ConnManRecently I came across a painful issue while using my development system with Docker. I spent an awful lot of time figuring out the exact issue. This is my attempt to document the fix hoping it helps someone in the future. The problem definition: Every time I start a Docker…Docker3 min readDocker3 min read
Jan 4, 2021Multilevel Prometheus setup using Remote ReadPeople who have been working in Ops and SRE domain need no introduction to Prometheus. It’s a popular open-source monitoring solution which also a part of the CNCF. I worked on an interesting setup of Prometheus, and this article is about a lesser documented feature of Prometheus called Remote Read. Remote Read …Prometheus4 min readPrometheus4 min read
May 22, 2020Moving to Substack | sitaram.substack.comIf you are reading this or came here to read some of my writings, Thank you! I have moved all of my posts from Medium to Substack and shall be writing new posts there. It comes with a sweet email subscription feature and doesn’t ask people to pay for reading stuff. Click here 👉 sitaram.substack.com1 min read1 min read
Apr 5, 2020Explain() ‘ation for my MongoDB Queries.Recently, at work, I was working on the reliability of background job processing. The nature of this process is to run every minute, spawn a bunch of parallel processing workers where each of these child workers writes a bunch of documents into a MongoDB collection. Now I needed to make…Mongodb6 min readMongodb6 min read
Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Feb 21, 2019How to set up server-side rendering in React with Rails using PuppeteerThis post is co-authored by Hricha Kabir, my colleague at Altizon Systems. We work on an IoT product focusing on manufacturing industries and build analytics reports. Most of the time, report design and information vary based on the user’s role who is going to consume it. Example: A Director level…React8 min readReact8 min read
Oct 3, 2018Inside RubyVMWhat is a Virtual Machine — Virtual Machine is a simulation of a computer system. When we talk about VMs in the context of languages, we are mostly talking about Process VMs. They are designed to enable us to execute a program in a platform independent environment. One of the most popular Process VM is JVM…Ruby5 min readRuby5 min read
Mar 2, 2017Gophercon India 2017This post is about GopherconIn 17. I was lucky enough to attend it. Event Event took place at Hyatt Regency on 24–25th Feb. The venue had good facilities and great food. It was closer from airport for speakers and attendees coming from out of Pune. People I met many people, all sharing…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Dec 2, 2016Designing ReactJS App for beginnersAlmost every person working in tech has heard about ReactJS by now. Some might even know Redux, Flux and something better. In this article I’ll be focusing on problems that I, as a beginner, faced with ReactJS and what I learned from them. Since I learnt programming, I don’t know…The Beginners Guide3 min readThe Beginners Guide3 min read
Sep 5, 2016Trying out Ruby [‘and’, ’on’] RailsRuby I joined Altizon Systems in August and we have our backend primarily in Ruby on Rails. In the first week, I setup the environment and before directly going to rails framework I started looking for “Getting started with Ruby” guides. Soon I realised the popularity of ruby is not…Ruby On Rails2 min readRuby On Rails2 min read
