Published inThe MoneyTap Blog·Sep 9, 2019Are We There Yet?Scaling time triggered checks without crons crawling all over! What often starts as simple databases for simple solutions grow when business is growing. Business requirements also grow over time — after all, there is only so much that can be supported by frequent reports being monitored by people at regular…Database7 min readDatabase7 min read
Published inThe MoneyTap Blog·Aug 27, 2019Cook your Scripts to APIs in 5 minutesWe all have those scripts that grow over time and does incredibly useful things for internal use. Often, more than the core logic of those, we end up spending time to make emails, batch processing etc. Useful things usually get to a point where people want to build additional systems…API3 min readAPI3 min read
Oct 25, 2018SQLite3 CTE tricks for time series analysisSQL has been there for ages. sqlite3 gives you a phenomenal tool to quickly load and analyse data in a language meant for that. While I’ve used it for a long time, only recently did I know about support for CTE aka Common Table Expressions. Quick (and overly simplified) definition…Git4 min readGit4 min read
Oct 12, 20182 ideas for WhatsAppWhatsApp is perhaps the most used app on our phones. It has become as ubiquitous as a tool can get. You get added to groups, you have quite a bit of chats lying around and you also may be using video or audio calls a lot. One thing I do…Messaging4 min readMessaging4 min read
Jul 6, 2018Quick development envs with dockerVery often, we end up setting up an entirely different machine for testing our stuff. Of late, I’ve been using docker on Ubuntu 18.04 for testing individual environments for various projects I work on. That way, when things finally make into production, I am sure that I’ve not forgotten to…Docker2 min readDocker2 min read
