Story of mysterious weekend restarts

In the early days of Clarisights(mid-2018), we had this problem where our Sidekiq VM used to restart on some weekends

Author's profile picture Suraj Nath on sidekiq and story-time

Sending Kubernetes events to Sentry

In this post, we will talk about how to collect events from multiple Kubernetes clusters and ship it to sentry

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No bullshit advice for cloud cost optimization

In this post, we will talk about cost optimization in cloud environments, and how to think and reason about your cloud bill. we will look into how and why cloud costs can get out of hands easily, and how to deal with it.

Author's profile picture Suraj Nath on cloud and cost-optimization

Polarization, echo chambers and feedback loops

I was watching How Trolls on Reddit Try to Manipulate You (Disinformation & How We Beat It) from Smarter Every Day (great watch btw) and observed that they talk about how trolls try to turn an argument into a binary argument, and polarize it, till there are sides formed and all logical discussions are suppressed.

Author's profile picture Suraj Nath on humans and social-media

Monitoring Ruby on Rails Apps

At Clarisights, we instrument our Ruby on Rails workload, figuring these things was bit of a work so I decided to share it with the world.

Author's profile picture Suraj Nath on Monitoring, Ruby, and Rails

My Google Cloud Cheat Sheet

Here are few commands that I find myself using a lot when I am working with gcloud cli, and Google Cloud

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My Ruby and Rails cheat sheet

Few things that I find handy when I am working with Ruby on Rails, and ruby in general.

Also contains my go-to resources and few neat things about Ruby

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My Docker Cheat Sheet

Here are few commands that I find myself using a lot when I am working with Docker

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