Nov 20, 2022Event-based alert messages using Pub/SubUsing Google Cloud Functions and Pub/Sub, let’s make alert messages to Slack or any service event-based and easily usable across microservices. — Have you ever been in that situation where you have to send emails or Slack messages for alerts from your microservices and ended up putting the same webhook URL or secrets and replicating the code in pretty much every service? Well, there’s an easier way to manage it, by using…Event Driven4 min readEvent Driven4 min read
Published inJavaScript in Plain English·Aug 1, 2021Build Your Own Website Analytics Solution with JavaScript, MongoDB, and Netlify FunctionsHow to Create Your Own Simple Website Analytics — Ever since I migrated my personal website + blog to Svelte-Sapper, I wanted to have some form of analytics to track the visitors’ count and few simple metrics. Though there are many solutions like the feature-rich Google Analytics and the privacy-focused Fathom, I did not want to use them mainly…JavaScript9 min readJavaScript9 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Jul 5, 2021Let’s talk about cloud certificationsThe “Why” and “How” of getting certified — Pretty much every major cloud platform offers certifications these days and it is definitely cool to flank the certified badges on your profile. But is it worth getting certified? Does having certification prove that you know the ins and outs of the platform? Having obtained multiple certifications and practically working…Cloud6 min readCloud6 min read
Published incodeburst·Feb 22, 2021Automated Tests: Are they Really that Important?Automated Tests — the one topic in software development that never fails to start a debate. Being a developer myself for almost three years now, I wanted to answer this question from my perspective. Disclaimer: The opinions in this article are purely my personal thoughts based on my learnings as…Software Development7 min readSoftware Development7 min read
Mar 29, 2020My VS Code extensions of choice for a supercharged code editor!If you are a web developer you would have mostly given Visual Studio Code a shot and might be using it as your editor of choice. The extensive support for extensions gives a lot of power to the users to customize the editor to their liking. As I use it…Web Development3 min readWeb Development3 min read
Published incodeburst·Oct 19, 2019Let’s deploy a GoLang service to the cloud.Sometime back, I created a tiny URL generator using GoLang, PostgreSQL and Redis (More about it here). Now, it’s time to deploy it on the cloud. In this article, I will be giving a quick run-down of steps I followed to deploy my GoLang service to the cloud. My cloud…Heroku5 min readHeroku5 min read
Oct 4, 2018Creating a simple tiny URL generator using Golang, PostgreSQL and RedisNot long ago, I had learnt to create a tiny URL generator using Node JS, Postgres and Redis for learning Node after coming across an article. Recently, I came across a problem where I had to create a micro-service in Golang. So, I wanted to build a tiny URL generator…Golang5 min readGolang5 min read
