AWS
Auto Scaling: Growing and Shrinking on Demand
Auto Scaling automatically adjusts your compute capacity to maintain steady performance at the lowest cost. I remember manually adding instances during tra…
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AWS
Architecture
Micro Frontends: Scaling Frontend Development
As frontend applications grow beyond what a single team can manage, micro frontends offer an architectural solution. The idea is simple: break your monolit…
AWS
Elastic Load Balancing: Distributing Traffic Like a Pro
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances. When I first set up an Applicatio…
Web Development
Building REST APIs with Spring Boot: A Practical Guide
Building a REST API used to involve a lot of XML configuration in the old J2EE days. Spring Boot changed all that with auto-configuration. I can now spin u…
Google Cloud Platform
Running a Discord Bot for 10,000 Users on Google Cloud's Free Tier
I run a Discord bot for a gaming community. Ten thousand users. Hundreds of requests per minute. And I pay exactly $0 to host it. The secret? Google Cloud…
Automotive
Understanding Basic Car Maintenance
You don’t have to be a mechanic to take good care of your car. Knowing a few basics can save you money and prevent breakdowns. First, learn how to check…
Photography
Introduction to Digital Photography
Getting a new camera can be intimidating with all its buttons and modes. The best advice I ever got was to start by understanding the exposure triangle: ap…
Google Cloud Platform
Running a Discord Bot for 10,000 Users on Google Cloud's Free Tier
I run a Discord bot for a gaming community. Ten thousand users. Hundreds of requests per minute. And I pay exactly $0 to host it. The secret? Google Cloud…
Photography
Introduction to Digital Photography
Getting a new camera can be intimidating with all its buttons and modes. The best advice I ever got was to start by understanding the exposure triangle: ap…
Fee Guide
UPSC Application Fee: Payment Methods, Exemptions, and Refunds
The UPSC CSE application fee is Rs.100 for General, OBC, and EWS candidates. SC, ST, PwBD, and all female candidates are exempted completely. Payment is on…
Education
UPSC Civil Services Exam Form Fill 2026: Complete Step-by-Step Guide for India
Filling the UPSC Civil Services Exam form is the first real test. Not of your knowledge, but of your patience. The form looks simple, but one wrong entry c…
Fee Guide
UPSC Application Fee: Payment Methods, Exemptions, and Refunds
The UPSC CSE application fee is Rs.100 for General, OBC, and EWS candidates. SC, ST, PwBD, and all female candidates are exempted completely. Payment is on…
Artificial Intelligence
How AI Is Quietly Changing Your Morning Routine
You probably don't think about artificial intelligence when you’re half asleep and pouring coffee. But AI is already there. Your phone’s alarm didn’t…
Business
Dubai's SME Economy: Opportunities for Small Business
Dubai's economy is not just multinational corporations and megaprojects — a large and active small business sector forms the connective tissue of the cit…
Machine Learning
Python for Machine Learning: Getting Started with Scikit-learn
Machine learning is one of the most exciting fields where Python shines. Scikit-learn is a robust library that provides simple and efficient tools for data…
Google Cloud Platform
I Used Vertex AI to Build an App That Reads My Handwriting (And It's Terrible But I Love It)
My handwriting is illegible. Even I can't read it sometimes. So I built an app using Google Cloud's Vertex AI and the Vision API. I take a photo of my note…
Google Cloud Platform
Running a Kubernetes Cluster for $0.10 a Day with GKE Autopilot
Kubernetes is powerful but scary. It's also expensive if you run it wrong. I had a small app that needed a database, a cache, and an API. Running this on s…
Jobs
Tech Jobs in Dubai: Your Career in the UAE's Digital Economy
Dubai's technology sector has expanded rapidly, fuelled by government digital transformation initiatives, a growing startup ecosystem, and large corporates…
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Functions: The Duct Tape That Holds My Side Projects Together
I have a problem: I start too many side projects. But I also have a solution: Google Cloud Functions. Need a webhook? Cloud Function. Need to process an im…
Google Cloud Platform
Running a Kubernetes Cluster for $0.10 a Day with GKE Autopilot
Kubernetes is powerful but scary. It's also expensive if you run it wrong. I had a small app that needed a database, a cache, and an API. Running this on s…
How to Use Claude
How Claude Reads and Analyzes Code: A Developer's View
Beyond writing code, Claude is remarkably capable at understanding and analyzing existing codebases. For developers working in complex systems, this analys…
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Functions: The Duct Tape That Holds My Side Projects Together
I have a problem: I start too many side projects. But I also have a solution: Google Cloud Functions. Need a webhook? Cloud Function. Need to process an im…
Google Cloud Platform
The Day My Site Got Hacker News Front Page (And GCP Didn't Flinch)
I published a blog post about a niche programming topic. It was just a little static site hosted on Firebase Hosting. Then I went to bed. I woke up to 47 n…
AWS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Deploying Apps Without Hassle
Elastic Beanstalk is the easiest way to deploy web applications on AWS. You upload your code, and it handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, and sca…
Google Cloud Platform
The Day My Site Got Hacker News Front Page (And GCP Didn't Flinch)
I published a blog post about a niche programming topic. It was just a little static site hosted on Firebase Hosting. Then I went to bed. I woke up to 47 n…
Google Cloud Platform
I Used Vertex AI to Build an App That Reads My Handwriting (And It's Terrible But I Love It)
My handwriting is illegible. Even I can't read it sometimes. So I built an app using Google Cloud's Vertex AI and the Vision API. I take a photo of my note…
CSS
Responsive Design Principles: Building Websites That Work on Every Device
Gone are the days when you could build a website for desktop screens and call it done. With mobile traffic consistently accounting for over half of all web…
Real-Time
WebRTC: Building Peer-to-Peer Video and Audio Applications
WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) enables direct peer-to-peer audio, video, and data sharing between browsers without intermediate servers. The technolo…
Backend
WebSockets: Building Real-Time Applications
The web was originally built for request-response communication, but modern applications demand real-time experiences. WebSockets provide full-duplex commu…
Design Systems
Design Token Systems: Scaling Design Consistency
Design tokens are the single source of truth for visual design attributes—colors, typography, spacing, shadows, animations—represented as platform-agno…