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2026

Django's N+1 Trap

Every Django project must start off with a warning about N+1 queries. The Django ORM makes it very easy to manage and...

2025

Thoughts on testing

In the last few months, I have been on a crusade to improve test coverage at work. The inspiration for this came from...
A hack to load test data in Github Actions

We run our integration test suite in Github Actions that requires some test data to be present in a database. The tes...
Setting up load testing with k6

After facing unexpected latency issues after a release, our team decided to invest some time in setting up a load tes...
Shifting Loki log storage to S3

We recently had an incident at work where Loki logs were not appearing in Grafana. As I investigated the issue, I fou...

2022

KGP Ideas

Some KGP-specific project ideas
Revisiting 2021

A year end review is a lazy way to wipe the dust off this blog, but I feel like it needs to be done for the sake of p...

2021

Optimism, pessimism, hope

Attempt at an essay
Setting up Umami

An open source alternative to Google Analytics
Adding robots meta tags to Hugo blogposts

The "deep" web This definition of the deep web somewhat reduces the fascination of hearing "deep web" on its own. Sea...
Summer Internship at Cisco

Experience and Learnings
Notes on Animal Farm

Spoilers, obviously
Middle Click in X

Input devices and selections
ClipDat - a VS Code extension

Quite an unnecessary one tbh
Write Anyways

A new approach to writing and blogging
Exploring CPython

Studying the Python Virtual machine
Shifting to Hugo

Porting Github Pages blog from Jekyll to Hugo
Content Review 2020

My 2020 in Books, TV Shows, Movies, Comedy and Music

2020

CDC Internship Process 2020 - Cisco

Code code code

2019

Hello world!

Finally

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