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Why I Use Cloud Source Repositories Instead of GitHub
Okay, hear me out. I love GitHub. I have a paid account. But for my work projects on GCP, I started using Cloud Source Repositories. The integration is sea…
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Okay, hear me out. I love GitHub. I have a paid account. But for my work projects on GCP, I started using Cloud Source Repositories. The integration is sea…
Google Cloud Platform
Okay, hear me out. I love GitHub. I have a paid account. But for my work projects on GCP, I started using Cloud Source Repositories. The integration is sea…
Technology
Open source software has quietly become the backbone of the modern digital economy. From the Linux operating system that powers most servers to the countle…
GitHub
Your GitHub profile is the first thing many people see when they want to work with you. But if you’re like me, you have dozens of old, half-baked project…
Claude Comparison
The distinction between open-source and closed AI models is one of the more important fault lines in the AI landscape right now. Claude (closed, from Anthr…
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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…
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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…
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I tried Jenkins. I tried GitLab CI. I tried GitHub Actions. They all worked, but they all felt like they required configuration YAML that was more complex…
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I tried Jenkins. I tried GitLab CI. I tried GitHub Actions. They all worked, but they all felt like they required configuration YAML that was more complex…
GitHub
I maintain a small open-source library that I use for my own projects. It was just a hobby. Then a user opened an issue and asked if I had a GitHub Sponsor…
GitHub
Open source seemed terrifying. I thought you had to be a 10x developer to even look at a project. Then I found a project I actually used—a simple note-ta…
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Cloud Scheduler is technically for triggering Cloud Functions or HTTP endpoints. But I've started using it for everything. I have a scheduler job that call…
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Cloud Scheduler is technically for triggering Cloud Functions or HTTP endpoints. But I've started using it for everything. I have a scheduler job that call…
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I had a weekly task: process 50,000 user records, generate reports, and send emails. I used to run this on a small VM. It would run for an hour every Sunda…
Technology
Cloud gaming is poised to disrupt the video game industry by decoupling high-end gaming from expensive consoles and PCs. Services like Xbox Cloud Gaming, N…
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I had a weekly task: process 50,000 user records, generate reports, and send emails. I used to run this on a small VM. It would run for an hour every Sunda…
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I had 10,000 files on an old FTP server. They were disorganized, poorly named, and scattered across folders. Moving them to Google Cloud Storage seemed dau…
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I had 10,000 files on an old FTP server. They were disorganized, poorly named, and scattered across folders. Moving them to Google Cloud Storage seemed dau…
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I was storing years of old backups, logs, and user uploads in standard Cloud Storage buckets. My bill was growing every month. Then I discovered storage cl…
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I used to find out my app was down when users emailed me. Hours of downtime. Angry customers. Panicked debugging. Then I set up Cloud Operations (formerly…
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I had this app idea. A travel planner that uses AI to generate itineraries. Big dreams, no money. I decided to build it on Google Cloud. I used Cloud Run f…
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It was 3 AM on a Tuesday. I was tired, running a script I thought was pointed at my test environment. One wrong click. One mistyped command. And just like…
AWS
A Virtual Private Cloud is your isolated section of the AWS cloud. It's like having your own data center with complete control over networking. I found VPC…
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I was storing years of old backups, logs, and user uploads in standard Cloud Storage buckets. My bill was growing every month. Then I discovered storage cl…
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I used to find out my app was down when users emailed me. Hours of downtime. Angry customers. Panicked debugging. Then I set up Cloud Operations (formerly…
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I came into GCP knowing nothing. No cloud experience. No infrastructure background. Just a developer who wanted to deploy an app. Month one was chaotic. I…
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It was 3 AM on a Tuesday. I was tired, running a script I thought was pointed at my test environment. One wrong click. One mistyped command. And just like…
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I came into GCP knowing nothing. No cloud experience. No infrastructure background. Just a developer who wanted to deploy an app. Month one was chaotic. I…
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I had this app idea. A travel planner that uses AI to generate itineraries. Big dreams, no money. I decided to build it on Google Cloud. I used Cloud Run f…
Technology
When DeepSeek entered the scene, I was skeptical. Another large language model promising breakthroughs. But what caught my attention was the commitment to…
Machine Learning
One of the best ways to learn is to contribute to open source. But it’s intimidating. Where do you start? I started by fixing documentation typos. Seriou…
Software
Everyone knows Windows. Everyone knows Office. But Microsoft has a hidden gem. GitHub. They bought it for 7.5 billion dollars in 2018. At the time, develop…
Technology
As the volume of data generated by IoT devices explodes, cloud computing alone is no longer sufficient to handle the latency and bandwidth demands. Enter e…
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I was stuck on a Cloud Function. I needed to process images uploaded to a bucket, generate thumbnails, and store metadata in Firestore. The event structure…
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This might be controversial. I started on AWS. EC2, RDS, S3. It worked. But something always felt off. The console was a maze. The documentation felt like…
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I was stuck on a Cloud Function. I needed to process images uploaded to a bucket, generate thumbnails, and store metadata in Firestore. The event structure…
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My app crashed. I had logs. Thousands of them. I needed to find the error that happened at 3:14 AM. I used to SSH into servers and grep through log files…
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This might be controversial. I started on AWS. EC2, RDS, S3. It worked. But something always felt off. The console was a maze. The documentation felt like…
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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…
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My app crashed. I had logs. Thousands of them. I needed to find the error that happened at 3:14 AM. I used to SSH into servers and grep through log files…
AWS
AWS certifications validate your cloud knowledge and open doors. I started with the Cloud Practitioner exam, which covers foundational concepts. It's perfe…
AWS
When I first heard about Amazon Web Services, I thought it was just online storage. I was wrong. It's a massive collection of cloud computing services that…
Google Cloud Platform
I used to be a server person. I liked having my little VPS, SSH-ing into it, installing packages manually. It felt like being a real sysadmin. But then cam…
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I used to be a server person. I liked having my little VPS, SSH-ing into it, installing packages manually. It felt like being a real sysadmin. But then cam…
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I've used all the major clouds. AWS's console feels like a government website from 2005. Azure's feels like a maze where every hallway looks the same. But…
Technology
Remember when people called Microsoft boring? That was ten years ago. Satya Nadella took over as CEO in 2014. Everyone expected more Windows versions. More…
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I've used all the major clouds. AWS's console feels like a government website from 2005. Azure's feels like a maze where every hallway looks the same. But…
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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…
Web Development
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…
Databases
When I first started using Spring Data JPA, I was amazed that I could just create an interface extending `JpaRepository` and get CRUD methods for free. But…
DevOps
As web projects grow, managing multiple packages, applications, and shared code becomes a significant challenge. Monorepos—single repositories containing…
Technology
Using AI coding assistants often means sharing your code with third-party servers. This privacy trade-off deserves more attention. For open-source projects…
Career
If I could go back and give myself advice, I’d say: don’t just learn the syntax. Learn the ecosystem. Knowing Java is great, but knowing Spring, Maven…
GitHub
I poured months into a side project, pushed it to GitHub, and... nothing. Zero stars. Zero forks. It was a ghost town. I realized that building the code wa…
Career
Your portfolio is often the deciding factor in job applications. It needs to do more than just list skills—it should demonstrate them. Start with a clean…
Design Systems
Design tokens are the single source of truth for visual design attributes—colors, typography, spacing, shadows, animations—represented as platform-agno…
Machine Learning
At some point, your laptop won’t be enough. Training a deep learning model on a CPU is like trying to dig a pool with a spoon. I had to make the jump to…
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We've all done it. Hardcoded API keys in config files. Committed them to Git. Then scrambled to revoke them when you realize the repo is public. I was guil…
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I used Docker Hub for a while. It was fine until I had a private image that I didn't want public. Then I discovered Artifact Registry on GCP. It's a privat…
AWS
The Well-Architected Framework is a set of best practices for designing cloud systems. It covers five pillars: operational excellence, security, reliabilit…
AWS
Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, is the backbone of AWS. Think of it as renting a powerful computer online instead of buying one. You can launch a virtual se…
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We've all done it. Hardcoded API keys in config files. Committed them to Git. Then scrambled to revoke them when you realize the repo is public. I was guil…
Google Cloud Platform
I used Docker Hub for a while. It was fine until I had a private image that I didn't want public. Then I discovered Artifact Registry on GCP. It's a privat…
Google Cloud Platform
I used to ignore VPC networks. I'd just use the default network and let everything talk to everything. It was easy. It was also dangerous. One misconfigure…
Technology
Launching a startup today requires assembling a sophisticated technology stack that enables rapid development, efficient collaboration, and scalable growth…
Google Cloud Platform
I used to ignore VPC networks. I'd just use the default network and let everything talk to everything. It was easy. It was also dangerous. One misconfigure…
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My family wanted a website for our reunion. Photos, RSVP, schedule, updates. I built it in a weekend. Frontend on Firebase Hosting. A Cloud Function to han…
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My family wanted a website for our reunion. Photos, RSVP, schedule, updates. I built it in a weekend. Frontend on Firebase Hosting. A Cloud Function to han…
Security
Okay, let’s be real for a minute. Handing over your passwords and API keys to an autonomous piece of software is a security nightmare waiting to happen i…
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Three years on GCP. I've made mistakes. I've learned lessons. Here's what I wish someone told me on day one. First: set up billing alerts immediately. That…
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Three years on GCP. I've made mistakes. I've learned lessons. Here's what I wish someone told me on day one. First: set up billing alerts immediately. That…
Google Cloud Platform
My previous job involved analyzing CSV files. Gigabytes of them. Excel would crash. My laptop would overheat. I spent hours writing VLOOKUPs that took minu…
Cybersecurity
I was a history major, which seems like a weird path to cybersecurity. But I was always into puzzles and logic. After taking a few online courses, I got my…
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I gave a service account the 'Owner' role. I know. I'm ashamed. It was my first week on GCP. I wanted everything to just work. It did work. Too well. One d…
AWS
Simple Storage Service, or S3, is where you store files—images, videos, backups, anything. But it's not just a folder in the cloud. It uses buckets, whic…
Google Cloud Platform
I wanted to break into data science, but I didn't have any projects to show. Then I discovered that Google Cloud gives $300 in free credits to new users. I…
Google Cloud Platform
I gave a service account the 'Owner' role. I know. I'm ashamed. It was my first week on GCP. I wanted everything to just work. It did work. Too well. One d…
Google Cloud Platform
My previous job involved analyzing CSV files. Gigabytes of them. Excel would crash. My laptop would overheat. I spent hours writing VLOOKUPs that took minu…
Google Cloud Platform
I wanted to break into data science, but I didn't have any projects to show. Then I discovered that Google Cloud gives $300 in free credits to new users. I…
AWS
Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database built for the cloud. It offers better performance than standard RDS—up to 5x for MySQL and 3x for Po…
Google Cloud Platform
I woke up to an email from Google Cloud: "Your bill for this month is $10.52." I panicked. My little side project was supposed to be on the free tier. How…
Google Cloud Platform
I woke up to an email from Google Cloud: "Your bill for this month is $10.52." I panicked. My little side project was supposed to be on the free tier. How…
Technology
With so many AI options, choosing can be overwhelming. Here is my practical guide. Choose Claude if you need large context windows, excellent documentation…
Technology
Between ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and various other subscriptions, the costs of AI tools add up. I calculated my monthly spending and asked whether it is w…
Business
In today’s digital era, students in India have countless opportunities to earn money online without affecting their studies. With the rise of platforms l…
Philosophy
Arthur Schopenhauer was the pessimistic counterpoint to Hegel’s optimism. He argued that the world is not a rational, progressive unfolding, but the mani…
How Claude Works
Claude can work in many languages beyond English, and for professionals and organizations operating globally, understanding its multilingual capabilities a…
How to Use Claude
Research has always been time-consuming — reading through papers, synthesizing sources, building understanding from scratch on unfamiliar topics. Claude…
Rise of America
The nineteen twenties in America were years of dizzying transformation in the texture of everyday life. The automobile went from novelty to necessity. Radi…
How Claude Works
Knowing when to trust Claude and when to verify is one of the most important skills for using AI tools effectively. Claude is designed to help you make thi…
GitHub
I’m guilty of it. You find a cool project on GitHub, open the README, and it just says 'My project'. What does it do? How do I install it? How do I use i…
Technology
You've heard of ChatGPT, but how does it actually work? Under the hood, it's powered by a Large Language Model, or LLM. At its core, an LLM is a type of ar…
How Claude Works
One of the most distinctive things about Claude is its consistent emphasis on honesty — not just avoiding lies, but actively trying to give users accurat…
Animals
We’ve all seen it: you make a funny noise, and suddenly your dog’s head cocks to the side like a little feathered feather. While it’s undeniably ador…
Tools
People always ask what tools I actually use, so here’s my stack. For scheduling and email, I use a tool called Reclaim. For research, I use a custom Perp…
Animals
Koalas are famous for sleeping up to 20 hours a day. The reason is their diet. They eat eucalyptus leaves, which are tough, fibrous, and—to almost every…
AWS
CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service. I set up a pipeline that automatically deploys code changes from GitHub to Elastic Beanstalk…
Animals
If you’ve ever had a cat kneading on your lap, you know the feeling of tiny claws gently pressing into you. Often called ‘making biscuits,’ this beha…
Adventure
One Piece shattered the "curse" of bad anime adaptations when it premiered in 2023. The live-action series captured the spirit of Eiichiro Oda's beloved ma…
DevOps
Feature flags (also called feature toggles) separate deployment from release, enabling continuous delivery with reduced risk. Instead of merging code then…
Creativity
The world of AI art generation can feel overwhelming, but it's actually one of the most accessible entry points into using AI. If you have an idea, you can…
Superhero
The Umbrella Academy has been one of Netflix's most beloved genre series, adapting Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's comic series with style, humor, and heart…
Machine Learning
We often ignore the environmental cost of training large models. Some of these models consume as much energy as a car over its lifetime. I’ve become more…
Business
Dubai has made a serious strategic bet on becoming a technology hub, backed by government funding, regulatory flexibility, and active recruitment of talent…
Rise of America
There is a strip of land between San Francisco Bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains that, in the span of about fifty years, produced more transformative techno…
DevOps
The days of deploying a WAR file to a Tomcat instance on a virtual machine are fading. Most Java shops are moving to containers. I started Dockerizing my S…
Jobs
Dubai's economy has diversified significantly over the past decade, and the sectors with the greatest appetite for talent in 2025 reflect that diversificat…
Machine Learning
There’s a huge trend right now to use deep learning for everything. But honestly? Sometimes a simple Random Forest or even Logistic Regression will do th…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Jobs
Dubai's technology sector has expanded rapidly, fuelled by government digital transformation initiatives, a growing startup ecosystem, and large corporates…
AWS
The number one fear for AWS beginners is getting an unexpectedly high bill. I've been there. The key is understanding that AWS charges for what you use, an…
Technology
Deep in the New Mexico desert, a group of scientists changed the world. They didn't know it at the time, not really. They were racing against the Germans…
Environment
We talk a lot about how cool AI is, but rarely about the energy it consumes. Running large language models and AI agents takes massive data centers that gu…
Technology
Quantum computing is no longer just a concept reserved for theoretical physicists; it is rapidly becoming a tangible technology that promises to revolution…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Introduction to Claude
Privacy is a legitimate concern when sharing information with any AI service, and Claude is no exception. Understanding Anthropic's data practices helps yo…
CMS
The headless CMS architecture decouples content management from content presentation, giving developers flexibility to use any frontend technology while le…
Development
You don't need to be a software engineer or know Python to build your own AI-powered application. The rise of no-code and low-code platforms has democratiz…