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How to make your Hashnode blog load faster?

Jul 20, 20214 min read 85 views

This post talks about the recent "monstrous upgrade" (as they call it) that Hashnode has brought in its architecture and how we can leverage the power of this upgrade to speed up load times of our blogs hosted on Hashnode. Background A lot of you mi...

How to make your Hashnode blog load faster?

Port a website to the Dark Web in under 2 minutes

May 27, 20213 min read 261 views

What if hosting a website on the dark web was as easy as running a tiny docker container in your own machines or a remote server or merely on your Raspberry Pi? What if I tell you that it actually is, and you can now host your own website on the Tor ...

Port a website to the Dark Web in under 2 minutes

Proxying to your app running on custom port in NGINX

May 13, 20211 min read 171 views

More than ever, if you're managing a server either as an EC2 instance on AWS, or as a VM instance on GCP, or just working on your local machines, proxying to your app's custom port comes in handy if: Your app uses a protocol other than HTTP/HTTPS Yo...

Proxying to your app running on custom port in NGINX

How BigBasket stepped into Open Source

Mar 17, 20213 min read 63 views

The answer to β€œwhy?” With the fraternity getting fairly scrutinised in the last few years, it would not be wrong to say that the modern tech is indeed driven by open source software. The plethora is so firm and crisp that we typically use certain ope...

How BigBasket stepped into Open Source

A tale of strip-typecasting in MySQL

Nov 22, 20193 min read 43 views

As much as we think we know MySQL, it never fails to surprise us with unusual and weird, yet well-documented, scenarios. I was perplexed when I learnt about one such thing about MySQL today where it strip-typecasts (as I like to say it) strings to i...

A tale of strip-typecasting in MySQL

Making apt decisions while you code to save moneyπŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»

Sep 13, 20193 min read 38 views

It’s fairly common to find students coding all through their college and I was one of the lot β€” played around with a lot of code, services, APIs, hooks, bots and what not. I used to be confident that I’m pretty good at what I do, until now when stepp...

Making apt decisions while you code to save moneyπŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»