Like many things in life, these epiphanies didn’t arrive in one single a-ha moment. They started off as intriguing observations of life. But as time went on, I kept noticing these patterns over and over, leading me to believe I might be onto something truly profound. I started implementing these…

Cats Are Natural Born Buddhists — I was never a fan of cats, and for a good reason — for most of my life, I was allergic to cats, and frankly, I didn’t care for them much. I was allergic to a few other things, so I started taking allergy vaccines. They didn’t cure my real…

Software engineers are known to debate everything. But if there’s one thing we agree on, is that we all HATE writing tests. Have you ever spent the entire week crafting beautiful elegant code, only to realize that you still have to write tests for it? It’s a terrible moment. …

It was an ordinary day. I was out and about in my building’s residential gym, cranking out yet another workout. I was quite breathless, finishing my last few sets, when it happened. He walked in. A guy wearing jeans, a polo shirt, and a pair of work sneakers. …

I gotta get up and do something productive, I thought to myself. This recurring thought seems to occupy my mind every time I’m not actively engaging in something productive like work or working out. Sometimes, I do manage to get up and do something productive, and I get some relief…

PromQL. No matter how good you are, there will come a time when it’ll make you want to bang your head against the keyboard and beg for mercy. However, today is NOT that day my friends. Today, we learn! So… how do they work? The Difference Between Increase() And Rate() Increase() Let’s start with increase() as it…

An honest take on AI’s impact on the job market and our lives — The Current State of Affairs This post doesn’t really need a preface. Literally, everyone, including my future mother-in-law (who’s still asking me to help her write one-line emails) has heard about or even actively used AI. What was until quite recently the realm of a chosen few and the subject of frightening news articles like…

In the beginning, there were scripts and configuration files Every developer that’s been around the cloud ecosystem for a while, knows how life-changing it was to transition from error-prone scripts (or worse yet, manually working with your favorite cloud provider’s UI), to 1st generation IAC tools like CloudFormation and Terraform. However, that approach wasn’t really infrastructure as code. It…

Tips to keep your software engineering features balanced — Have you ever heard of the Waterbed Theory? I’m assuming you’re all familiar with waterbeds. Waterbeds may be quite amusing, but the main issue (at least with the inexpensive models) is their stability. If you sit on one side of it, the other side gloriously rises up to compensate. You…