Introduction Welcome to our exciting journey of optimizing Django database queries! We started with a 🐌 slow function that took a staggering 1219 seconds to analyze data and consumed 30% of our CPU. …

As a developer, it’s important to constantly strive for improvement and stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices. In 2023, the field of software development will be more competitive than ever, and to succeed as a developer, it’s crucial to possess certain qualities that will set you apart…

Docker is a powerful tool that makes it easy to run applications in a containerized environment. In this article, we’ll take a look at the basics of Docker and how you can get started using it. What is Docker? Docker is a containerization platform that allows you to package an application and its…

Hey there 👋 ! If you’re interested in software development or IT operations, you’ve probably heard of DevOps. But what is it? And how can organizations benefit by implementing DevOps? In a nutshell, DevOps is a set of practices and principles that aim to improve the collaboration and communication between…

List, Set, and Change File & Directory Owner, Group, and Permissions — Overview File and directory permissions in Linux refer to ways in which someone can use a file or a directory. Each file or directory has 3 sets of permissions that determine who has the permissions to do what. The “who”, here, represents either of the following: Owner: This is a Linux…

Before we dive into our main topic, let’s see how Linux stores and manages files. When we create a new file in Linux, Linux will create an inode to keep track of the file’s data as the data is stored in small chunks and may be scattered all over the…

Alert when systemd timer does not trigger the systemd service — Background I have set up some cron jobs using the systemd timer on a VM on GCP. The cron jobs are there to feed in new data into our database. In the beginning, the cron jobs were running perfectly, but then, all of a sudden, they stopped running, and we noticed…

If you have a static website and would love to host it on AWS at a low cost while giving your end-users the best experience then you are at the right place! In this post, I would show you how to host a static website on AWS using just two…

Architecture Design For Large-Scale Systems — Today, the internet is full of resources that teach you how to code, and how to create web applications, but it lacks resources on how to make your web app scalable so that it can accommodate thousands of users without having performance issues and making it fault-tolerant. …