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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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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…
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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
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…
CMS
The headless CMS architecture decouples content management from content presentation, giving developers flexibility to use any frontend technology while le…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
AWS
AWS certifications validate your cloud knowledge and open doors. I started with the Cloud Practitioner exam, which covers foundational concepts. It's perfe…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
AWS
The Well-Architected Framework is a set of best practices for designing cloud systems. It covers five pillars: operational excellence, security, reliabilit…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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
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…
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
India Travel
Gujarat is not on most first time travelers' itineraries, which is a shame because it is home to some of the most incredible architecture I have seen in In…
UX
Infinite scroll has become a common UI pattern, but implementing it well requires careful architecture. Poor implementations lead to performance degradatio…
How Claude Works
When you type a message to Claude, a lot happens before you see a response. Understanding the basics of how Claude works can help you use it more effective…
Architecture
Module Federation, introduced in Webpack 5, enables true micro frontends by allowing applications to dynamically load code from other builds at runtime. Un…
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…
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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…
Machine Learning
Before Transformers, we had RNNs and LSTMs, which were slow and had memory issues. Then the 'Attention is All You Need' paper dropped, and everything chang…
India Travel
The Sun Temple at Konark in Odisha is one of those places that leaves you speechless. Built in the 13th century, it was designed as a giant chariot for the…
India Travel
I have seen a lot of ancient sites around the world, but the rock cut caves of Ajanta and Ellora are on another level. Located in Maharashtra, these two si…
Spring Framework
Early in my career, I used the `new` keyword everywhere. `new UserService(new UserRepository(new Database()))`. I thought I was being efficient. Then came…
How to Use Claude
Beyond writing code, Claude is remarkably capable at understanding and analyzing existing codebases. For developers working in complex systems, this analys…
Dating
St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States, and its historic district is full of charm that makes it a perfect dating destination. The narrow, c…
CSS
Container queries represent the most significant advancement in responsive design since media queries. While media queries let styles respond to the viewpo…
Static Sites
Astro represents a paradigm shift in how we build content-focused websites. Its core innovation is island architecture—you ship HTML by default and only…
Dating
St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States, and its historic district is full of charm that makes it a perfect dating destination. The narrow, c…
Dating
St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States, and its historic district is full of charm that makes it a perfect dating destination. The narrow, c…
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…
Google Cloud Platform
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
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…
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…
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
I have refined my AI-assisted development workflow over the past year. It starts with brainstorming where I use ChatGPT to explore architecture options. Th…
Technology
I still remember the days of staring at a blinking cursor, trying to recall the exact syntax for a JavaScript map function. Then came AI coding assistants…
Business
The United Arab Emirates introduced a federal corporate tax of 9 percent on business profits in June 2023, ending decades of zero federal corporate tax and…
Tourism
The Jumeirah Mosque is one of the most beautiful buildings in Dubai and one of only a handful of mosques in the UAE that actively welcomes non-Muslim visit…
Rise of America
The United States spent the first century after the Civil War elaborating systems of racial subordination that made a mockery of its founding ideals. The S…
How Claude Works
Anthropic was founded on a specific thesis: that AI is one of the most transformative and potentially dangerous technologies ever developed, and that the b…
India Travel
Goa has a reputation for trance parties and beaches full of tourists, and yes, that exists. But there is another side to Goa that I fell in love with, a si…
Machine Learning
With all the fancy AutoML tools popping up, people think feature engineering is dead. It’s not. I’ve found that understanding your domain and creating…
India Travel
Orchha is the kind of place you stumble upon and wonder why it is not more famous. It is a small town in Madhya Pradesh, perched on the banks of the Betwa…
India Travel
Let us talk about the Taj Mahal. Yes, it is as beautiful as every photo you have ever seen. But seeing it in person is a completely different experience. I…
How to Use Claude
Enterprise adoption of Claude is growing fast, but enterprise deployments have requirements that consumer use doesn't — security, compliance, governance…
India Travel
Chennai, formerly Madras, is often overlooked by travelers, which is a shame. It is a city with a deep history, a strong cultural identity, and some of the…
India Travel
Pondicherry, now officially called Puducherry, feels like a slice of France dropped into South India. The French Quarter, with its mustard yellow colonial…
AWS
SNS and SQS are messaging services that help decouple application components. Simple Notification Service is for pub/sub messaging—you send a message to…
Maritime Security
The Indian Ocean is India’s backyard, but there are a lot of guests staying over. Diego Garcia, a tiny island in the Chagos Archipelago, hosts a massive…
Architecture
As frontend applications grow beyond what a single team can manage, micro frontends offer an architectural solution. The idea is simple: break your monolit…
Tourism
The Jumeirah Mosque is one of the most beautiful buildings in Dubai and one of only a handful of mosques in the UAE that actively welcomes non-Muslim visit…
Real-Time
WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) enables direct peer-to-peer audio, video, and data sharing between browsers without intermediate servers. The technolo…
Backend
GraphQL has emerged as a compelling alternative to REST for API design, but understanding when to use each matters. REST endpoints return fixed data struct…
3D Graphics
Three.js is the most popular library for creating 3D graphics in the browser, abstracting the complexity of WebGL into an approachable API. The library ena…
Edge Computing
Edge Functions represent a fundamental shift in deployment architecture, allowing developers to run code at CDN edge locations closest to users. Instead of…
DevOps
As web projects grow, managing multiple packages, applications, and shared code becomes a significant challenge. Monorepos—single repositories containing…
GraphQL
As organizations scale, they often end up with multiple GraphQL services owned by different teams. GraphQL Federation solves the challenge of composing the…
Real-Time
Building real-time collaborative features like those in Google Docs or Figma requires handling concurrent edits without conflicts. Operational Transformati…
DevOps
Feature flags (also called feature toggles) separate deployment from release, enabling continuous delivery with reduced risk. Instead of merging code then…
Dating
Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge is one of those quintessential New York experiences that works incredibly well as a date. It is free, iconic, and gives…
Security
Content Security Policy (CSP) is one of the most effective security headers for preventing XSS attacks, yet it remains underutilized. CSP lets you define w…
Desktop Development
For years, Electron has been the go-to for building desktop apps with web technologies. But Tauri has emerged as a compelling alternative with fundamentall…
AI Tools
AI code assistants like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Amazon CodeWhisperer are fundamentally changing how developers write code. These tools are trained on b…
Dating
Miami’s South Beach boardwalk is one of those places that works for any kind of date. You can keep it casual with a walk during the day, watching the col…
Dating
Charleston’s Rainbow Row is one of the most photographed spots in the South, and it makes for a charming and picturesque date. The pastel historic houses…
Dating
Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge is one of those quintessential New York experiences that works incredibly well as a date. It is free, iconic, and gives…
Dating
Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge is one of those quintessential New York experiences that works incredibly well as a date. It is free, iconic, and gives…
Dating
Miami’s South Beach boardwalk is one of those places that works for any kind of date. You can keep it casual with a walk during the day, watching the col…
Dating
Charleston’s Rainbow Row is one of the most photographed spots in the South, and it makes for a charming and picturesque date. The pastel historic houses…
Dating
Miami’s South Beach boardwalk is one of those places that works for any kind of date. You can keep it casual with a walk during the day, watching the col…
Dating
Charleston’s Rainbow Row is one of the most photographed spots in the South, and it makes for a charming and picturesque date. The pastel historic houses…
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…
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…
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…
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…