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Discover my latest thoughts, tutorials, and insights from VMacWrites, Medium, Dev.to, Substack, and Hackernoon.

Dev.to
August 08, 2025

Resolving Secrets Manager DNS Resolution Errors in Terraform and Pulumi IaC

I love Terraform and as a curious explorer, I started looking for an alternative when Terraform introduced HCL2. An IaC alternative where I can use the programming language of my choice for declarativ...

Dev.to
May 12, 2025

The Essential Role of Process Monitoring Scripts in Linux Environments

In today’s complex computing environments, keeping tabs on running processes isn’t just good practice — it’s absolutely critical. Whether you’re managing a fleet of Linux servers, maintaining developm...

Dev.to
May 04, 2025

Podman: Detailed Overview, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Setup

Podman is an open-source container engine that enables users to create, manage, and run OCI containers and pods across Linux, macOS, and Windows. Unlike Docker, Podman is daemonless, running container...

Medium
March 05, 2025
Dev.to
March 05, 2025

S3cmd: CLI for Object Storage

In the recent times, I am exploring and playing with Top Tools for Object Storage and Data Management. In this journey, one of the tools that I was introduced to was s3cmd. What is s3cmd? S3...

Dev.to
January 06, 2025

An Introduction to SymPy: A Python Library for Symbolic Mathematics

SymPy is an open-source Python library for symbolic mathematics. SymPy — Mathematics Python Library SymPy aims to become a full-featured computer algebra system (CAS) while keeping the code simple, ...

Dev.to
January 01, 2025

Pandas: Conversion using loc and iloc

Pandas is a powerful Python library used for data manipulation and analysis. Created by Wes McKinney in 2008, it provides data structures and functions for working with structured data efficiently. P...

VMacWrites
December 08, 2024

Reflecting on My 2024 Journey: Achievements and Growth

In 2024, I celebrated significant professional achievements, including prestigious certifications and awards while engaging deeply in community initiatives. My passion for technology spurred contribut...

Dev.to
December 08, 2024

Reflecting on My 2024 Journey: Achievements and Growth

As I think on 2024, I’m overwhelmed with gratitude and excitement for the incredible journey I’ve experienced. This year has been a remarkable chapter in my professional and personal growth. I have ac...

Medium
December 01, 2024
Dev.to
December 01, 2024

Nurturing the Developer Within: A Journey of Growth and Community

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, keeping the developer inside you alive is not just a choice—it's a necessity. As we navigate through our careers, it's easy to get caught up in the day-to...

Dev.to
November 20, 2024

IceCream: A Sweet Alternative to Print Debugging in Python

Tired of cluttering your code with print statements for debugging? Enter IceCream, a Python library that makes debugging effortless and more readable. Let's explore how IceCream can sweeten your debug...

Dev.to
November 18, 2024

Chain of Trust: Decoding SSL Certificate Security Architecture

The chain of trust is a fundamental concept in digital security that underpins the reliability and authenticity of SSL/TLS certificates used to secure online communications. It establishes a hierarchi...

Medium
August 07, 2024
Hackernoon
July 23, 2024
VMacWrites
December 16, 2023

2023: A year in retrospective

I enjoy interacting with people and sharing my thoughts through my blogs. This year, it’s no different. I learnt new technologies. I explored interesting tools. I had a lot of conversations with colle...

VMacWrites
July 01, 2023

Ansible code snippets for automation

I have been learning and writing Ansible for Cloud automation. Created this code repository to share my Ansible automation learnings as snippets. As I explore and learn Ansible, I will be adding the s...

VMacWrites
November 09, 2020

Adjust the speaking rate

Stackoverflow is an ocean for learning and exploring. How? Try answering a question and you will understand 🙂  A few weeks ago, I saw this question on StackOverflow –  How to adjust the speaking rate ...

VMacWrites
April 09, 2020

Container to container communication with bridge network

In this post, you will learn how to establish container to container communication by creating a bridge network. The back story Currently, I am working on a sample code that includes a frontend (web) ...

VMacWrites
April 05, 2019

Container registry unauthorized: authentication required

IBM Cloud container registry(ICR) imagepull fails on IBM Cloud Kubernetes(IKS) cluster with Unauthorized: authentication required error. Here’s what you did You have pushed an image to IBM Cloud conta...

VMacWrites
February 06, 2019

Istio on Windows 10

In this post, you will learn how to setup Istioctl on Windows 10 to run Istio service mesh commands on your command prompt(CMD). Before jumping into the setup steps, let’s recap What is Istio? Cloud p...

VMacWrites
November 05, 2018

Create a presigned URL to download an object in Python 3.x

Presigned URLs in Cloud Object Storage create a temporary link that can be used to share an object publicly for direct download. In one of my serverless(IBM Cloud Functions) proof of concepts, I had a...

VMacWrites
October 09, 2018

Install Knative with Istio on IBM Cloud

This post provides you step-by-step instructions to install Knative with Istio on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service(IKS), build and push your image to IBM Cloud Container Registry and deploy the app. Befor...

VMacWrites
July 18, 2018

Awesome-AI: The guide to master artificial intelligence

A curated list of articles, books, MOOCs, infographics and many more covering Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Check this GitHub repo Artificial Intelligence is a fascinati...

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