🗓️ Monthly Review - 2024

January - 2024​

• Started learning the R programming language for Data Science.
• Contributed to a Spring Boot service to consume new patch data from Kafka and parse it, without even coding in Java before.
• Started working on my portfolio website.

February - 2024​

• Completed setting up my portfolio.
• Bought my first domain on GoDaddy, set up the Vercel server, and set it as the root CNAME for the domain.
• Completed Fundamentals of Network Engineering course.
• Created a high throughput API that processes requests using jobs.

March - 2024​

• Profiled a core business Python service and reduced memory footprint by 66%.
• Published my first blog, How to take Harvard University's CS50 Course and break into the Tech Industry.

April - 2024​

• Built a command line generative AI bot that can be used directly from the terminal without the need for going to a browser. Utilizes Google's Large Language Model(LLM), Gemini Pro.
• Started pursuing Fundamentals of Operating Systems course by Hussein Nasser.

May - 2024​

• Migrated a core production use MongoDB collection from one database to another.

June - 2024​

• Joined DAZN, a leading sports streaming service in Europe.
• Published What happens when you click this link

July - 2024​

• Setup APIs with HMAC:Hash-based Message Authenticated Code.

August - 2024​

• Setup AWS Simple Queue Service(SQS) using IaC, Terraform.
• Setup Webhooks and push messages to FIFO Queue for enabling high throughput.
• Configured HTTP Connection to keep it alive longer for implementing Long Polling for message consumer.
• Implemented Parallel Computing in NodeJS to split thousands(140K+) of high computing tasks to complete it faster, reducing overall processing time from 24 hours to less than 5 hours.
• Created payload validation middleware to strip unknown request parameters.

September - 2024​

• Optimized a service to mitigate impact on Child Processes during a crash in Main Process.
• Migrated two DynamoDB tables into a new table and improved query time by applying efficient partitioning.
• Created Global Secondary Index to further optimize queries.
• Published What happens when you open an app

October - 2024​

• Implemented Byte Order Mark(BOM) for CSV files to persist UTF-8 encoding in applications.
• Create signed URLs for S3 files to allow the end user to download directly.
• Setup Dead-Letter Queue for a FIFO Queue using Terraform.
• Setup new Webhook.

November - 2024​

• Setup SQS for consuming out of order messages via centralized streaming service based on SNS.
• Created consumer class for polling SQS and configured HTTP to persist connections for Long Polling.
• Setup new DynamoDB table to store consumed messages with right partitioning key.

December - 2024​

• Implemented exponential backoff with jitter for a DynamoDB table.
• Scaled a service to default 50 instances by deploying 50 Containers(ECS Tasks) to increase the rate of consumption of published messages.
• Developed an API that fetches upto 100 records from database per request efficiently.
• Created new DynamoDB table to capture block counts of users and append the same for user details service API.