Siddharth Ravichandran 8/10/23 Siddharth Ravichandran 8/10/23

Setup Hashicorp’s Nomad And Consul Using Ansible

This walk-through will provide you with the information required to run and manage your Nomad Cluster. We’ll briefly touch up Consul to ensure you’re able to seamlessly load balance your services.

Siddharth Ravichandran 6/26/23 Siddharth Ravichandran 6/26/23

Bridge Networks For KVM On Ubuntu 22.04 Server

If you’ve been trying to create bridge networks for your virtual machines on KVM you may have stumbled upon a few roadblocks. With Ubuntu 20+ Server the default NetworkManager is replaced with the systemd-networkd. You can always install NetworkManager on your server but in this post we’ll describe how to create bridge networks using Netplan.

Sahrish Rizvi 6/5/23 Sahrish Rizvi 6/5/23

Coreutils Feature Shorts - Automatic Budget Rollovers

Coreutils handles all the campaign budgeting for you. It begins with 2 basic constraints that set the guardrails for all your campaigns. Setting these values lets you operate without having to micromanage utilisation of your allocations.

Sahrish Rizvi 6/5/23 Sahrish Rizvi 6/5/23

Coreutils Feature Shorts - Custom Claim Expiry

By default the claimed coupon can be redeemed for 7 minutes but now with the latest release, you can customize the claim expiry for each claim request.

Siddharth Ravichandran 5/23/23 Siddharth Ravichandran 5/23/23

Python Logging 101 - Filters And Handlers

Python logging consists of a few core components that we’re required to interact with. While setting up a logger does not require us to interact with most of these, we eventually end up having to tweak the default configurations to get what we need for a production-grade deployment.

Sahrish Rizvi 5/18/23 Sahrish Rizvi 5/18/23

Introducing Coreutils.dev

As part of the early access release of Coreutils, we’re launching the Coupons feature. If you’re a business with a small engineering team that runs your own e-commerce offering, this could be a handy plug-and-play service that can help you get rolling quickly.

Siddharth Ravichandran 4/26/23 Siddharth Ravichandran 4/26/23

Make Remote Work For You

There are millions of reasons to reject the “remote way”, but if you’re looking to make a real effort to embrace the practice then here’s how we do it.

Siddharth Ravichandran 1/11/23 Siddharth Ravichandran 1/11/23

Case Study - Alphacoach Evolve

Alphacoach Evolve is a health and fitness platform, that generates huge volumes of time-series data. The data is then run through computational layers before insights are generated and offered to the users as actionable outcomes.

Siddharth Ravichandran 10/25/22 Siddharth Ravichandran 10/25/22

PostgreSQL - Cancelling statement due to conflict with recovery

Running queries on a standby replica node may cause queries to error out with a message 'Cancelling statement due to conflict with recovery'.

Siddharth Ravichandran 10/24/22 Siddharth Ravichandran 10/24/22

SQLAlchemy and Idle in transaction queries

Orphaned transactions are a problem that could lead to messy states in the database. This is usually a good indicator that the something is not right in the manner in which connections are established and closed on the services that query the database.

Siddharth Ravichandran 10/9/22 Siddharth Ravichandran 10/9/22

Transactional Unit Tests with Pytest and Async SQLAlchemy

This is a quick how-to post if you’re working on migrating your database-backed applications to async-sqlalchemy and are looking to get a test framework in place.