Back in late Janurary, I joined a new company, Druva. They do really fancy stuff with enterprize backup and data-protection. They are mostly on top of AWS, with a couple of on-prem solutions as well. I have joined as a software engineer in the Druva Labs team. This team focuses …

I bought myself a 5TB external Hard-drive from Seagate. I am going to use this for my home-server build. The computer will the the Raspberry-Pi which I already have. It's time to up my seeding game. Before installing it on my server I wanted to run some benchmarks on it …

Started using the Raspberry-Pi4 seriously and ran sone benchmarks testing out a Fan-Case that is locally available in India.

The tcp is a protocol that is responsible for making sure that small packets of data can get to their destinations reliably.

It has a vast array of features that are designed so that tcp offers the best throughput and ensures quality of the transmission media, i.e. TCP will …

Container

A container is a fancy Linux (unix) process.

The fancy-ness of the process comes from the fact that this process is running in a very isolated environment and a very restricted environment. This means that the process can not see other processess and it has very limited access to …

A very brief primer on x86 Stack Frames. Stumbled onto this while reading about Linux performance monitoring tools. It's been a while since I looked at assembly code so this was more fun than I expected.

Anyhow, This post will summarize some basics of what are Stack Frames and How …

Brief Update about the Pandemic and my work situation

How do you run tcpdump only on a container ? How does container networking even work ?

In this we will explore some bits of container networking and figure out how to run tcpdump in such a way that only the traffic from a container is captured.

Normally running tcpdump on the …

In case you are reading this from the future.

A description of my accounting system at 2020.