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In this post we are going to learn how you can use AWS Cloudwatch insights to precisely measure no. of logs successfully processed by AWS Kinesis Firehose for a given time interval. You might think...

In my previous post I wrote about a Terraform module which can be used to setup a logging pipeline with AWS Kinesis Firehose and AWS Elasticsearch. Following is the architecture diagram of the setu...

I wrote a Terraform module which can be used for creating a logging pipeline with AWS Kinesis Firehose and AWS Elasticsearch.

I wrote a Terraform module which can be used for creating infra showcasing different types of AWS Elasticache Redis setups. This does not claim to be the best way to create AWS Elasticache Redis ...

If you are reading this, then you truly have good taste and appreciate the finer things in life. Seriousness apart, dear reader, I wanted to update you that I am giving substack a shot to host my t...

Moved to Substack

You need Nginx as a reverse proxy ACL manager for your Elasticsearch cluster if:

Edit: This post was relevant when I needed a way to whip up posts using vim on blogger. Now that I've moved to github pages - I don't need to jump these hoops.This post was uploaded on blogger from...

Edit: I have left blogger, wordpress for my tech blog and moved to github pages as communicated here. This post was written when I was trying to decide between blogger and wordpress.For those who a...

Edit: I have left blogger, wordpress for my tech blog and moved to github pages as communicated here. This post was written when I was trying to decide between blogger and wordpress. #!/usr/bin/per...

If you are looking for an in depth explanation of the Schwartzian transform with an example, please refer to my earlier post - Schwartzian Transform Explained I was getting bored and asked a f...

If you are reading this, then you truly have good taste and appreciate the finer things in life. Seriousness apart, dear reader, I wanted to update you that I am giving substack a shot to host my t...

Moved to Substack

Does your job require you to boot up your box in Windows instead of Ubuntu? Do you miss the vi-mode on the command line? Do you become nostalgic at the mention of multiple shell tab sessions? Do yo...

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - Leo Tolstoy.

In my previous post, I had described how to recover the admin password of your BSNL ZTE DSL modem, provided you have the modem configuration backed up.But if you don't have the config file backed u...

Model: BSNL Dataone ATE ZXDSL 531B modem. (Below points worth a shot for any other modem also)Assumption: You have saved your modem settings locally on your machine. If not, don't be disheartened (...

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - Leo Tolstoy.

#/usr/bin/perluse strict;use warnings;my $str = $ARGV[0];my @alpha_arr = ('a' .. 'z');my %str_tok_hash = map { lc($_) => undef } grep { /[a-z]/i } split(//, $s...

If you are looking for an in depth explanation of the Schwartzian transform with an example, please refer to my earlier post - Schwartzian Transform Explained I was getting bored and asked a f...

Did you google for "explain schwartzian transform"?If yes, then you've come to the right place. If no, then you've come to the right place (I wouldn't want to loose out on a prospective reader now,...

Created a github account to share my bin with the rest of the world.Had written a perl program to simulate tail -f quite some time ago. Put it up there. Enjoyed writing it. Hope you feel the same w...

Edit: This post was relevant when I needed a way to whip up posts using vim on blogger. Now that I've moved to github pages - I don't need to jump these hoops.This post was uploaded on blogger from...

Edit: This post was relevant when I was yet to discover the very amazing tmux.For me, screen seems like a distant memory now.tmuxinator FTW!I am getting used to the screen command for my Linux deve...

I wrote a two-part series on an interesting concurrency issue I ran into while working with grequests and gevent.

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Every organization’s internal monitoring setup has a variety of environments it caters to, with varying levels of alerting mechanisms (email, slack, pagerduty, etc.) and response time expectations....

Wrote a nifty little tool - slotter - to slot items into pre-defined slots.

I’ve been working with the icinga2 API recently and find it to be very useful for doing command line icinga2 operations.

Python has a solid backbone of modules for various operations. It would be a pity if we had to write one-liner python programs just because we cannot avail those functionalities on the command line...

This blog post serves as a comment area for this ipython notebook

In my previous post we talked about Python decorators and an intuitive way of remembering how decorators with arguments work. The following code snippet had triggered the whole chain of thought:Now...

I conducted a Terraform workshop internally for my org. I realized that most of the Terraform tutorials try to emphasize more on creating different types of resources i.e. EC2, ELB, etc. while for...