DevOps

Why Horcrux ? At Groww, we have a large number of micro services with databases running under the hood. Data stores at Groww primarily include MySQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch, Redis etc. Apart from huge throughput of our micro services, there are numerous scenarios when certain AdHoc requests are required on data stores. There…

Those are the commands that I use on my daily work, that save me a lot of time and increases my productivity. tmux tmux allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in a single window. It is useful for running more than one command-line program at the same time. It…

Using AWS Lambda can save a lot of time in getting services up and running but has some major drawbacks when used extensively. It is important to understand these pitfalls as they don’t usually matter until you run into them in production when it is too late to avoid. 1. Private API Gateway is Incompatible with Custom DNS It…

Introduction — As a Graduate in Software Engineering with a good CGPA, I have always been stumbling between multiple fields of Software Engineering. I tried Android App Development, Cross-Platform App Development even Game Development and Machine Learning. Recently, I’ve worked with a full-stack web application framework Ruby on Rails, and then I…

In case you haven’t seen the international headlines: Mineiros, published an introduction blog post for Terramate, an orchestrator and code generator for Terraform environments at scale. Please read it in our blog if you want to become a better human and awesome at Terraform. Jokes aside, this article dives deeper…

In the last few years, the “micro-service” movement swept the software engineering landscape, becoming the de-facto standard for any modern SAAS (and any other) applications. Enormous amounts of materials were written on what monolithic systems are, their shortcomings, and how to decompose them into small, isolated units of computation power…