Srijan R. Shetty

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2024

A curious case of 520 errors with Nodejs and ALB

This post is a deep dive on how we solved intermittent 520 errors with our Nodejs application behind an AWS ALB

Japan

Japan is everything you hope it to be and more; it's one of the few places you experience a real culture shock because it is unlike any other place in the pl...

The missing guide to TailScale subnet routing in AWS

a few things that the official reference misses

Heath Checks on a Custom Port for Websockets with ALB

How to setup health checks on a custom port for websockets with Application Load Balancer

Setting up AWS Peering Connections for Wazuh and ECS

How to setup AWS Peering Connections for Wazuh and ECS in a secure manner

2023

Unit Testing Typescript in under 10 seconds

Using swc to test a 120k LOC in under 10s

OARS, SQL Injections and Paper Backups

OARS - thread dread of IITK and how paper backups are secure

The based professors of IIT Kanpur - Professor TVP

Professors TVP, humours us and treats us for April's fool on our request

The based professors of IIT Kanpur - Professor Biswas

We bunked but Professor Biswas had the last laugh

2022

On missing the shared intimacy of friendships

What really hurts is not the loss of friendship, but the loss of intimacy.

Moving 4 TB across cloud storage providers for free

rclone - the swiss army knife of cloud storage

Handling CORS with cloudflare workers

Using Cloudflare workers as a REST server

ZSH bindkey in MacOSX for Cmd

Binding insert-last-word in ZSH to 'Cmd + .' in Mac OSX

Using TouchId for sudo in Mac OSX

Polygon Devfolio Fellowship

Wrapping up two months of hacking on Polygon with amazing build00rs

Poor Man's ALB - Apache

Using apache as a poor man's ALB - you gotta do what you gotta do

2020

How Do Gulp Typescript Without Module Loaders

Using gulp to transpile typescript and use in the browser without module loaders

Leaving Your Sock(et)s Hanging

A command pattern that I’ve used in multiple projects is an event-loop sidecar. The sidecar runs on it’s own thread and does asynchronous IO; thereby increas...

Custom DNS Using Pihole

custom DNS routes on pihole

Shell tricks to manage a cluster

use shell features to manage a cluster of servers with docker et al

KISS - UNIX and Composition

UNIX way and KISS go hand in hand

Storing Cookies With Httpie

Automating session creation in httpie

2019

Gitting Hooks setups

Perfect workflow for setting up git hooks

JCIP - Java Concurrency in Practice 2019 Review

Is JCIP relevant in 2019?

John Vim - Parabellum

Compling vim from source

2018

Modern Love

Modern love is strange, and hopefully we come to see of it more like friendship

How to Train Your Python - 2.7

Walking the dependency hell of python to install plottable jupyter

Travelogue - Russia, 2018

The land of the white night and many colors

Call (Me) by (Your) Name: Python Is Pass by What Again?

Python is neither call-by-value nor call-by-reference

Honey, I Did a Bare Except

Don't even think about using bare excepts or exceptions in python

Zombieland: Zombie Children Eating Memory

If you're not careful, your children can turn into zombies and eat your server

Afflatus Begins

The story of how it begins

2016

Installing Scikit and Numpy in Ubuntu

a consolidated set of steps for installing scipy on Ubuntu

Tasker Appendix

Some handy tasker tips

2015

Travelogue - Paris

The city of lights

Wastelands

Dead men seeking salvation

CLI Goodies

My commandline productivity toolkit

Mastering Custom Site Search in Chrome

The title says it all

Nothingness

Hell and heaven were never the artifacts of religion

Chromecast and Linux

Make chromecast work with Linux

Estranged

Two roads diverged in a wood, and estranged they stood.

Travelogue - Central Park, NY

On moving on

Greg Wilson - What We Know About Software

A few key takeaways from Greg Wilson's talk.

Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur

A guide to CSE at IIT Kanpur

Time Travelling With Vim

Using vim to time travel

Officially an Alumni of IIT Kanpur

Srijan R Shetty (IITK/B.Tech./CSE/2015)

Safely Storing GPG Keys

An easy way to store GPG Keys

On Photographs

Pics or it didn't happen

Shell Magic

Saving an Ubuntu in distress with some commandline-fu

First Programming Bug

The first programming that I encountered with JS

Travelogue - Nepal

Leap of faith

Linux: Pause and Resume Processes

Pause any running linux process and resume it later

2014

Vcsh, Mr - Dotfiles Nirvana

dotfiles nirvana using vcsh and mr

Travelogue - Indore

Such nights are to be cherished and such friends are to rejoiced

Travelogue - MT

Wisps of smoke, and a floor cold, A broken pavement, centuries old. The refuge of wanderers left astray, Seeped in our culture - dying today. As the sun kiss...