Embracing AI: How Engineers Will Actually Work Now
I upgraded my entire blog - Astro 3 to 5, overhauled the CSS system, and shipped to production without writing code myself. AI has evolved. Engineers who embrace it will too.
From Senior Engineer → Tech Leader: What Actually Changes
What really changes when you move from Senior Engineer to Tech Leader? A practical, experience-driven reflection on decision making, mentorship, ambiguity, and leadership mindset from years in engineering and tech leadership roles.
Figma to Code Using Cursor AI
Discover how to effectively use Cursor AI with Figma for real-world UI development, including a structured prompt strategy, design system integration, and lessons from a brownfield project.
Planning a MongoDB to Postgres Migration with AI and MCP
Discover how I used AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to plan a seamless MongoDB to PostgreSQL migration through collaborative reasoning, smart prompts, and real-time data exploration.
Stepping Beyond Tech: My Journey with Ekadashi and the Power of Fasting
A personal journey into Ekadashi fasting, exploring its spiritual roots, Hindu traditions, and surprising scientific health benefits.
Vibe Coding: My Take
Vibe coding is a new term that has been gaining popularity in the software development community. It is a way of coding that is focused on the desired outcome of a software project, rather than the code itself. It is a way of coding that is focused on the desired outcome of a software project, rather than the code itself.
AI as Your Code Partner: Pair Programming with LLMs
Exploring AI-Assisted Coding: A hands-on session demonstrating how developers can collaborate with AI tools to write better code through effective prompting and continuous refinement.
Why coding with LLMs can be harder than you think
Coding with LLMs sounds deceptively simple, but the reality is more complex than YouTube demos suggest. This post explores the challenges of vibe coding, providing practical strategies for effectively collaborating with AI coding assistants. Learn how to manage context, separate product and developer mindsets, and adapt your approach for different project types to harness the power of LLMs while avoiding common pitfalls that can slow down development.
Deploying DeepSeek Distilled Model to AWS Bedrock
Learn how to set up an EC2 instance, clone and manage a 260GB AI model, upload it to S3, and import it into AWS Bedrock for inference.
Understanding npm audit and fixing vulnerabilities
Learn how to use npm audit to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in your Node.js project dependencies. This guide covers how npm audit works, fixing vulnerabilities with npm audit fix, handling transitive dependencies, and best practices for maintaining a secure Node.js application.
Going Full Serverless with AWS AppSync and DynamoDB using TypeScript CDK
Learn how to build a fully serverless architecture with AWS AppSync and DynamoDB using GraphQL and AWS CDK. Achieve seamless scalability and cost efficiency for your e-commerce order management system.
Exploring Server-Sent Events (SSE) with NestJS
Discover how to implement Server-Sent Events (SSE) with NestJS for efficient real-time web applications. Learn the benefits of SSE, its one-way communication model, and how to correctly manage headers and data streams in NestJS.
Optimizing for the Cloud: A Tale of Scalability and Cost Reduction
This blog narrates a Lead Architect's successful quest to enhance a client's cloud infrastructure, significantly reducing AWS costs and improving scalability through innovative AWS solutions. It marks a pivotal debut in his new role, showcasing strategic problem-solving and technological prowess.
NextJS vs. Astro: Choosing Developer Ease over Complexity
In the dynamic world of web development, the tools and technologies we choose significantly impact our productivity and the performance of our applications. My recent experience of transitioning my blog from NextJS to Astro offers a telling example of this.
Exploring New Frontiers with AI and Chatbot Development
The landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen significant shifts and advancements with the release of transformative tools like ChatGPT. From Twitter to Reddit, discussions about AI, its applications, and varying perspectives on its implications are growing quickly.
NestJS fetch secrets from AWS Secrets Manager
Often, applications use environmental variables to store secrets or values that vary depending on the system where the application runs. These values are typically not checked into the git repositories, and you may need to set them at runtime.
Streamlining Infrastructure Management with AWS CDK and ECS Fargate
Last year, I joined Travelopia to lead the WebApp development teams. My early days were focused on meeting the product tech team and learning about the technology solutions they were using in their projects.
The Future of Data Fetching in React
React has recently announced the development of a new hook that will provide first-class support for Promises.
🚦 Avoid using enums in Typescript
If you are coming to the typescript world from Java or from any other typesafe languages, then often your choice might be Enums for structuring something like loglevels, status, etc.
Domain Driven Design
Domain Driven Design, is an approach to designing a software system by getting direct inputs from the domain experts and modeling the software accordingly. These domain experts can be the product owners or someone who is close to the product and understands the need of the market/end-users
My WFH desk setup
Since the pandemic began, most of us started working from home. Some people like it and some people miss their offices. But for me, the most amazing part of WFH is the desk setup. Have always seen YouTubers having this but I never got this opportunity until now.
NestJS + TypeORM + Postgres InMemory DB E2E testing
Testing is one of the most important and a major part of any application development, NestJS by default uses Jest & Supertest for making unit tests & end-to-end testing jobs easier.
Who is a Tech lead?
Generally, every company will have roles for understanding seniority in the team, these roles can start from Junior Developer to all the way till Principal/Senior Developer. The term might vary from company to company but the idea is the same. The team will be composed of a set of developers with different expertise & experience. And it’s very important to have a SPOC(Single point of contact) for the engineering team to function. These anchor roles are generally called Tech Leads.
One piece 23rd anniversary
One piece is officially 23 years old now and I thought of creating a small CSS card of Luffy.
CSS: What's the difference between px, em & rem?
Most of us grew up using px CSS unit. This code should be familiar to you width: 100px;. But in the past few years, I saw other units getting added to the CSS specs. So let’s understand each of them.
Difference between Map & Flatmap | RXJava
RXJava can be very intimidating at first go. Reactive Extensions - RX is all about data streams & handling them and three important pillars for it are Observables, Operators & Schedulers.
Reactive programming with RXJava
There is a huge buzz in the market for “Reactive Programming”, but the very first question comes in our mid is what is reactive programming? Why we need reactive programming? What is RX?
How to write clean code?
A project is much easier to develop and maintain if the codebase is clean, which every developer should strive for. Writing clean code is not rocket science, in fact, it’s quite simple.
Java Vert.x MongoDB Client with Guice
Vert.x is an event-driven non-blocking library. It’s not a framework, so you get power to write code in your way. Vert.x is similar to NodeJS. It helps you to achieve concurrency with minimal hardware.
Never buy anything from Snapdeal
Today I am going to share my journey on buying a product from Snapdeal.
Javascript Naming Conventions
Many times we face situations in projects for naming our files, variables or classes. Here is the convention I am sharing which I follow in my projects of Javascript.
[] == [] is false, why? | JavaScript
I love javascript and its mystery, if you had to compare a set of two identical arrays the first thing in your mind would come is to compare using == operator. But in javascript the result will be different.
Stop wordpress asking FTP details
If you are on linux system and fed up with Wordpress asking FTP details on every install/update of plugin/theme??
Get your website visitors device battery status
Recently I added a functionality in one my clients website to notify user about battery status if they are running low on it.
Javascript Mixin
In simple words reusing object between different classes. You can also take it as an Interface with implemented methods.
Ubuntu convert images to pdf
Add your multiple images into a single pdf by following command #pdf #ubuntu
JQuery Treeview List
JQuery Treeview List - Creates a nice expanding and collapsing tree view control using jQuery.