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We Got Married

I’ve written about a lot of things on my blog that I felt were important to me over the years, so it’s something of an uncanny feeling to know that I’m writing about the one that’s the most important thing I’ve ever written. On Friday, I got married.

On June 29th, I married the love of my life, Varsha.

It’s hard to find words to describe something as amazing as what this past weekend was like for me. Our story is unique and at the same time exactly the same as every love story that’s ever bee...

Srirangapatna Trip, January 2018

Recently I have had chance to visit Srirangapatna, a historical town in Mandya district of Karnataka. It's approximately 130 KM far from Bangalore.

This was my first long drive, which started early morning from Bangalore with my frineds. This photostream contains all the images from the trip.

On the way to Srirangapatna Starting from Bangalore, early morning On the way to Mysore without having Kamat Idly, how is even that possible Daria Daulat Bagh, Srirangapatna ...

Don't make me think

Recently I’ve been reading “Don’t make me think” by Steve Krug. If you care about usability of the product you design, this book is must read. Where the focus in this book is mainly on websites but the guideline or the principle remains same, as you want to keep the user away from confusion while using any kind of product.

Here are few selected notes from the book-

Usability means making sure something works well, and that a person of average ability or experience can use it for its intended...

Savandurga Trip, December 2017

Recently I've had a chance to visit Savandurga, which is a hill and is approximately 70 KM far from Bangalore. The hill is famous for a temple and also considered to be among the largest monolith hills in Asia.

When I was looking at the images which I took during the trip, the hill was looking exactly like Yosemite and actually most beautiful than Yosemite. :)

This photostream contains few of the selected stills which I took during the trip, if you want to know and preapre before visiting Sa...

Diwali 2017

This Diwali wrote first poem of my life in Hindi :).

एक दीया दिन रात जले, एक दिवाली रात जले

एक परहर के बाद जले, एक वरष के बाद जले

हर परहर बाद वो परातः है, जो वरषों बाद दीवाली है ।।

जो परकाश दे दीपक है, वो परहर जले या वरष जले

एक समय का पालक है, एक सवयं का चालक है

जो पालक है वो शासक है, जो चालक है वो अनुवरती ।।

एक समय का सूचक है, एक ख़ुशी का सूचक है

खुशियां है घर आने की, शायद अब रामराज होगा

खुशियां है खिल जाने की, शायद दीपक बिक जायेंगे ।।

कभी हमारी सोच यही, कभी हमारी सोच यही

शासक ही निरणायक है,...

Finally using Docker, goodbye Vagrant

While working on my local development, I always get frustrated when it takes more time to run build process than actually writing the code or in making any change. Because we are more eager to see the result and move fast to run multiple iterations for things we are building. Be it design, logical changes in program or fixing some bugs.

Sometimes it happens that we spend our 60% time in just waiting for the build operation.

There are two possible reasons when the build process cannot be effec...

Kerala Trip, August 2017

Recently I had the chance to visit Mananthavady in Kerala. Kerala is also known as God's own country because of its natural beauty. It is approximately 300km far from Bangalore.

About nature, John Lubbock says -

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."

And here I was finally in nature where there is no artificial sounds, no pollution, and no other thoughts but just...

Lesson learned from my trainer

In starting of this year, I had decided to work upon few things on myself. The list was not so long because I knew if it���ll long then I���ll never be able to follow on this. In the list I had exercise as last point, but I was not able to follow up on this.

When you are not doing physical exercise, it results in many consequences and your Dad���s admonition. From last week, I was able to make it work as per the plan and after a week, today morning I had discussion with my Gym trainer about t...

Distraction

Belonging to the intellectual work requires you to not getting distracted. Be it programming, writing, research or any work(simply put in one thing - solving the problem) where you want to be in the zone. Wikipedia defines it as-

the process of diverting the attention of an individual or group from a desired area of focus and thereby blocking or diminishing the reception of desired information.

Psychological studies show that developers can slide into a focused working rhythm with music muc...

How we achieved MySQL HA using ProxySQL

ProxySQL is an open source MySQL load balancer and proxy solution which can run on almost any Linux distributions. It can be used to improve performance and availability of MySQL server. In this post, we���ll discuss a general overview of what ProxySQL is and examples of how it can be used to improve the performance and availability of your MySQL servers.

First, let���s see how ProxySQL can be useful. Let us assume you have an application which uses a single MySQL host with a database of five...