Imagine having a frontend, a backend, a database for storing metadata, and a blob storage like Google Cloud Storage or S3 bucket for storing large objects like images, videos etc. Apart from these things, there will be services like load balancers, NAT gateways etc which will also constitute to hops…

This article aims to explain how routing works in Apigee X. It is divided into 3 sections: The first part explains how traffic comes to Apigee X from various clients. The second part explains how to configure the traffic flow to backends in different networks and datacenters. The third part…

While Google Cloud SQL has a feature of automated backups and point-in-time recovery, you might still have a requirement to have backups with a higher frequency. One reason to do this can be compliance. On-demand backups can be done via the console, gcloud or with the REST API. Automation can…

What is Apache Airflow? Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow orchestration and scheduling platform. Airflow is extensible, pluggable and highly scalable. It is developed purely in Python and therefore can be as versatile as the language itself. Airflow has several components like a web-server, scheduler, workers and a database. To learn more about Apache…

I have always enjoyed programming memes, mainly because they are very much relatable if you code yourself. Sometimes you learn stuff from them as well, although not in a very efficient way, but for sure in a fun one. Story It was 2019 and I was new to programming and the…

[Important] There is a lot of code written in here and much less text. I know it is overwhelming to see so much code when you don’t even understand the language. But I have explained everything in each code block itself via comments. Reading line-by-line will help you a lot…

1. Excalidraw Excalidraw is an open-source whiteboard tool that allows users to create simple diagrams and drawings. It is designed to be used in real-time collaborative sessions, making it a useful tool for remote team meetings and brainstorming sessions.

Imagine having a GCP project setup where you have multiple VPC networks and compute engine instances hosted inside them. By default, instances in one VPC won’t be able to communicate with the instances in the other VPCs over private IPs. To get the instances in different VPCs to communicate with…

Kubernetes is amazing at managing complex applications. But, we human beings tend to have a hard time with complexity. Applications that we deploy in Kubernetes can get very complex. A typical application can have multiple components interconnected with each other to make everything work. Developing, upgrading, and managing those applications…