FokosDB: A strongly consistent bottomless storage database ontop of Cloudflare Durable Objects
A deep dive into the architecture of FokosDB, a distributed database built ontop of Cloudflare Developer Platform.
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Amazon DynamoDB references
Various references to Amazon DynamoDB's architecture, publications, articles, videos.
Investing in 3x Daily Leveraged Nasdaq 100 ETFs (TQQQ or QQQ3) using QQQ weekly MACD signals
A long-term strategy with over +10,000% of profit using MACD weekly signals from QQQ to exploit the bull runs of 3x Daily Leveraged ETFs like TQQQ.
Cloudflare Durable Objects are Virtual Objects
How to think about Cloudflare Durable Objects as Virtual Objects and the mindset shift it brings.
Large Language Model (LLM) prompting guides
A collection of guides how to prompt LLMs and be effective.
DevConnect Series talk - Cloudflare Developer Platform Overview
The talk covers an overview of the Cloudflare Developer platform, core services, and how to gradually integrate it with your existing infrastructure.
How to do encryption and envelope encryption with KMS in Go
Understand encryption, envelope encryption, and how to implement them in Go code.
How to detect website text content changes with Skybear.NET
Use Skybear.NET and Hurl to get notified when some text changes on a website.
Testing the Cloudflare D1 REST API with Hurl
Learn techniques and tips for using Hurl to test your own REST APIs with Cloudflare D1 as example.
Control and data plane architectural pattern for Durable Objects - Cloudflare Reference Architecture Diagram
This document describes a useful architectural pattern to separate the control plane from the data plane of your application to achieve great performance and reliability without compromising on functionality.
Love letter to Hurl
Why I love Hurl for all my HTTP scripting and testing needs.
Deploy your applications on a server with zero downtime
A guide to deploy your applications on servers (e.g. VPS, EC2) with zero downtime.
Building a global TiddlyWiki hosting platform with Cloudflare Durable Objects and Workers — Tiddlyflare
A hosting platform for TiddlyWikis of any size, anywhere in the world.
Skybear.NET Scripts secret variables, HTTP triggers, and replacing AWS Lambda with Fly.io - Changelog 2024-10-15
Skybear.NET Scripts platform changelog update for August and September 2024.
Durable Objects (DO) — Unlimited single-threaded servers spread across the world
Understand Cloudflare Durable Objects and use them to simplify your architecture.
Brag document and folder — feels good only
Log your achievements over the years, with evidence, for feel good moments in the future.
Skybear.NET Scripts landing page and Business plan - Changelog 2024-07-21
Skybear.NET Scripts platform changelog update for July 2024.
Skybear.NET Scripts response bodies and cron triggers - Changelog 2024-05-28
Skybear.NET Scripts platform changelog update for May 2024.
Ownership - High agency - Manager of One
Having holistic end-to-end ownership of what you do leads to success.
SaaS Pricing - What I want vs What I offer
What pricing model do I like as a customer vs what to offer as a SaaS provider.
Skybear.NET Scripts private user accounts - Changelog 2024-02-18
Skybear.NET Scripts platform changelog for February 2024.
Hurl Webscripts v0.0.1
Initial version of a managed platform to run Hurl scripts.
How to find listening and open ports in Linux
A simple way to list the local network ports and their state.
How to find your public IP
A simple way to find your public IP as seen by other servers.
Template for writing technical RFC docs
A battle-tested template I have been using for writing technical RFC documents.
Amazon Profiler and AWS CodeGuru Profiler — CI/CD
The CD/CD pipeline for Amazon Profiler and AWS CodeGuru Profiler products.
The CI/CD Flywheel
The CD/CD flywheel explains the several stages of continuous integration, delivery, and deployment of your software.
Writing docs
I like writing detailed documentation. This article explains why you should too.
Feature Flags — CI/CD
This article dives deep into feature flags. A technique that gives you super powers during deployments of new versions of your software.
How to pass the interview for software engineering roles in Big Tech
Practical information and guidelines in how to prepare, and pass, the software engineering interviews in Big Tech companies.
Merge two directories recursively
How to properly merge two directories or folders recursively, even subfolders, on Linux/Unix systems.
Fast Feedback Loop and Delayed Gratification
Is Fast Feedback Loop in conflict with Delayed Gratification? How should we balance them out?
The perfect PaaS: Does it exist? Or impossible to build?
My rants on Platform-as-a-Service and cloud infrastructure products, where they fall short, and what do I need.
Hell Yeah or No - what's worth doing | Highlights
My favourite highlights from the 'Hell Yeah or No' book from Derek Sivers.
AWS Lambda + Upstash Redis + Go = 🚀❤️
Low latency APIs on AWS Lambda, using Go, backed by Serverless Redis, for a great developer experience. Guest blog on Upstash Redis blog.
Twitter 📝 Post-Commit Reviews by Cindy Sridharan
My notes on the article Post-Commit Reviews by Cindy Sridharan as posted in my Twitter.
Twitter 📝 Observability for emerging infra: Charity Majors
My notes on the talk Observability for emerging infra by Charity Majors as posted in my Twitter.
Fly.io cloud development environment with Visual Studio Code Remote-SSH
A guide on how to use a Fly.io container as your personal cloud development environment and VSCode with Remote SSH as your editor.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Go platform (AL2) — Deep Dive
A deep dive into the Elastic Beanstalk Go platform (Amazon Linux 2), including single and multiple processes, and logging.
Serverless platforms into 2022 — AWS, Cloudflare Workers, Netlify, Vercel, Fly.io
A quick comparison of available serverless platforms going into 2022.
Kotlin http4k (via GraalVM Native Image) and Golang
How Kotlin compiled to native image via GraalVM Native Image compares to Golang.
Makefiles for execution coordination
Use 'make' and Makefiles to coordinate simple and complicated processing pipelines, from files to complex programs.
Keeping the brain engaged
The ideas, projects, or thoughts, that keep my brain on are usually the ones worth doing.
Bits of Unsolicited Advice by Kevin Kelly
Amazing quotes and bits of advice from Kevin Kelly.
Minibri Temp - Asciidoc support
Minibri Temp now supports Asciidoc formatted files to be rendered.
The Read-Watch-Listen list
A new page with a lot of content I find interesting online, including articles, videos, and audio/podcasts.
A journey through email providers (Zoho Mail, Private Email, Gmail, HEY, Google Domains)
My journey through several email providers during the last 12 months. I tried Zoho Mail, Namechep's Private Email, and ended up back to Gmail with Google Domains.
Minibri Temp — The Deep Dive
Describes Minibri Temp as a product, and also dives into its technical details like its architecture, its use of Netlify serverless functions, and Amazon S3 as its only storage.
Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021
Looking back to what 2020 brought for me, and what I want 2021 to bring.
Life In The UK test — Tips for 2020
Some tips about passing the Life in the UK test.