Published in ShareChat TechByte·Jun 8, 2021How we brought down storage for the Ads platformPart — II This article is the continuation of the 2-part blog series on ‘How we brought down storage for the Ads platform’. Reference to part 1 can be read here. In the earlier blog, we explored different solutions we went through to solve the following problem: our code needs…Tech6 min read
Published in ShareChat TechByte·Oct 28, 2020How we brought down storage costs for the Ads platform: Part 1At ShareChat, our Ads platform allows advertisers to run all their marketing campaigns on our app and at scale. A common problem that occurs has been around the per-user frequency capping for an ad. To achieve this, our code needs to do the comparison of the number of times a…Tech5 min read
Dec 31, 2019Last decade in 10 snippets2010 1. 👫 Left school and started a relationship with my future wife 2. 📚 Left my home and began engineeringLife3 min read
Sep 5, 2019I’m leaving Wyzebulb — Top 30 learnings over the past 3.5 yearsI have worked at Wyzebulb for over 3.5 years. I am proud of the team we have built over the years and I genuinely feel that each of us has contributed to Wyzebulb in a positive way. I am also proud of the product we have built over these years…Startup9 min read
Aug 4, 2019How does NodeJS work(Beginner to Advanced)? — Event Loop + V8 Engine + libuv threadpoolI finished a course recently on NodeJS: Advanced Concepts to improve my understanding of the inner working on NodeJS. This blog is based on this course and other research that I did myself during the course. The blog is created in the form of a conversation between you and me…Java Script13 min read
Dec 23, 2018My coding environment setup from scratch on Ubuntu 18.04When you’ve been working on the same OS for close to 3 years, you definitely want things to function and be set up in a certain way. Recently, my 3-year-old laptop suffered the full wrath of the motherboard deity and I had to switch over to a new laptop. …Nodejs6 min read
Dec 22, 2018Installing Postman on Ubuntu — the right wayAny web developer who has ever worked on creating APIs for more than a few months would probably have used Postman already — be it to test their API, create API documentation, debug their API, and more. While downloading Postman from https://www.getpostman.com/postman is straightforward, it is the installation which is…Postman2 min read
Dec 22, 2018Some useful git aliases and how to set them upVisual Studio Code is my editor of choice and I usually use its Source Control features to create a branch, switch branch, push and pull in git. Hold your horses before cringing about me using GUI instead of the command line. I don’t usually care whether I’m using command…Git3 min read
Aug 23, 2018How I debugged huge Data Transfer costs on AWSDuring the month of Aug 2018, our costs on AWS were sky-rocketing: The projected costs were also increasing every day at a rapid pace. We could’ve hit around $4k by the end of the month. Something was going very wrong. …AWS10 min read
Mar 1, 2017A year at LeadoDisclaimer: This is not a blog. This is a short story about my year at Leado and my learnings from it. As such, it is longer than my previous blogs. Today marks the day when I joined Leado a year ago. Previous to Leado, I had worked at babajob for…Startup8 min read
