Save money on the Cloud — Iosef Tarasov, a Russian mobster, rightfully said “Everything’s got a price”. The same applies while using cloud services. Every cloud provider's console has a palette of services by which they paint rainbows. But, there is always a price for it. As a Cloud Practitioner / SRE / Infrastructure Consultant/ DevOps…

Optimize earnings on your resting money — I have recently opened a saving account in IDFC. I will be switching to it as my primary bank. Earlier I had an account with Kotak Mahindra Bank. Disclaimer: This blog is not sponsored by IDFC. If IDFC is looking at it, hope you might now consider sponsoring me🙈. Why? Interest Rates IDFC…

A 5-year investment blunder — It was February of 2019. And the financial year was about to end. I knew the time was ticking. I wanted to save some tax under section 80C. I thought to buy an ELSS/Mutual Fund for the same. I called in my bank. I said I wanted to invest in…

TL;DR: Yes — I own three credit cards right now. I acquired all of them in the past 1.5 years. So, you can understand I have been relatively new to this credit system. Sometimes, I regret that I acquired them so late in my life. But, it is good that I own them…

This is my journey up till now being engaged with an NGO called The Apprentice Project(TAP). Why did I want to go to school? During my school and college life, I studied just to pass the exams. I wanted to score good marks but rote learning was something I couldn’t do. I found the classroom sessions to be…

On 16 April 2018, Confluent announced the release of Confluent Platform version 4.1.0. Some changes have been described on the release notes itself. However, there are some bits which are not mentioned in the release notes, but can be found in the documentation. While running the spikes, we encountered some feature/api level changes between 4.0.0 and 4.1.0. Differences Link to the sources: Control Center Dashboard Configurations

We all know red, green and refactor technique. But I was never convinced that I should write a failing test first. I thought — “Why would I fail my test?”. So here is my story on how I learnt it the hard way. That was a time when I lost…

If this title doesn’t make sense. No worries. Come here when you start writing functional automation test and need to run it against Android Emulator. The Problem (Skip this section, if all you need is solution) When you want to run your automation tests against android emulator, you would like to disable the animations. The animations are enabled by default on…

“Smile, you are in Lucknow”. This is the tagline of the City of Nawabs, Lucknow. This city is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state of India. Come here to witness variety of places and people. This is the city you should visit if you are in North…