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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 06/05/2025

Funniest feature I’ve seen in GitLab so far would probably be dynamic child pipelines. Depending on how you view it, it’s kinda like metaprogramming pipelines. Or I guess metapipelining. That said, I’ve implemented it on a use case where it’s a great fit. Almost exactly what I needed/wanted. Crazy

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 01/05/2025

I’m back folks. Starting to get used to the pace at my current role. No promises, but might post every once in a while here

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 15/03/2025

I’ve been documenting a bit about the projects and logging my work as I do them. I wonder if I should share them to the team or if I should just keep it to myself

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 14/03/2025

Whew. Got through my first week pretty well. Handled a few tickets and projects. Didn’t expect to work on all this so soon but I’ll take the experience 😌

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 12/03/2025

It’s only my third day here and I’m already working on infra tickets and projects. Nothing beats getting hands-on when it comes to adjusting and learning

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 11/03/2025

TIL that ubuntu and debian base Docker images don’t have ca-certificates installed

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 08/03/2025

A friend of mine linked me to Hashicorp’s Raft implementation. Not the one using BoltDB though. The one that used WAL. The storage engine works similarly to SSTables in LSM trees but instead of merging, it truncates the head. Makes sense since Raft logs are append-only. github.com/hashicorp/ra...

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GitHub - hashicorp/raft-wal: experimental raft storage

experimental raft storage. Contribute to hashicorp/raft-wal development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 07/03/2025

I’m not sure if it fits my needs as we sometimes use Infisical to store config files and other files such as certificates. We don’t really have a lot of JS code as well. The idea of unifying the validation and access through dmno is interesting though. Do you plan on supporting other languages?

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 07/03/2025

I’ve been writing tools on top of our secret manager, Infisical, to make a configurable setup for injecting secrets during the CI/CD execution of our GitOps repo. Maybe I’ll open-source it one of these days

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 07/03/2025

Life’s been a bit busy lately. I just graduated two weeks ago and will start working as an SRE next Monday 🎉

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 15/01/2025

Gonna archive the previous idea for now. I got a more interesting challenge at work

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 11/01/2025

I’m thinking of building a proximity-based app. Something like finding the nearest coffee shops near a 500 m, 1 km, 2 km, 5 km, or 10 km radius

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 10/01/2025

So I finally have a lot more free time since I’m just about to graduate. Will be posting more often here hopefully because of it 😅

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 22/11/2024

That looks pretty sorted to me Dan 😗

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 22/11/2024

In the spirit of learning, I wrote a post about using Sentry for tracing multithreaded programs. There are some things that I may need to clarify first (e.g. scopes) but here’s the draft chevonair.com/sentry-multi...

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Distributed tracing with Sentry for multithreaded applications | Bleating Edge

Perhaps the most crucial thing to do before deploying your applications to production is to make sure that you can monitor and act quickly in case of failures. A quick Google search will show you term...

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

*headpats for the bluesky servers*

a cyberpunk catgirl who is also a server cabinet getting headpats from Bluesky in a server room.

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 19/11/2024

I wanted to add tracing to our services. I was told that @sentry.io actually has them for a while. I only knew Sentry for error monitoring and issue tracking so this piqued my interest. Suffice to say, I love it.

A Sentry flame graph of a trace for the feature I tested

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 17/11/2024

Here’s a link to the paper that maps these structures over the Read, Update, and Memory (RUM) triangle stratos.seas.harvard.edu/sites/schola...

stratos.seas.harvard.edu

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 17/11/2024

The more I read about storage structures in databases, the more I realize how complex it is and how much I took it for granted. Advancements in this area has allowed for more complex and different use-cases such as log storage, time-series databases, etc.

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 16/11/2024

Ever tried Casiopea? Here’s a sample of them youtu.be/zIK1Vn6Va3w?...

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Casiopea - Domino Line

YouTube video by jazzytaka

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 15/11/2024

I’m very green to distributed systems and the likes but the software internals discord has really helped me get my bearings and get my feet wet with the state of development now

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devin ivy 🐋 @divy.zone · 15/11/2024

after one of the wildest days of ops in my life, reading this and all the other supportive posts means a tonnn, big 💙 let's keep the posts rollin tonight and do it all again tomorrow?!

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 14/11/2024

Reading through the AT Protocol repository specs right now and it’s fascinating, especially how they implement Merkle trees to efficiently store and verify records atproto.com/specs/reposi...

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Repository - AT Protocol

Self-authenticating storage for public account content

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 13/11/2024

The idea of a unified storage API with xNVMe reminds me of SYCL in the heterogenous computing space. Some of the terms are quite similar indeed registry.khronos.org/SYCL/specs/s...

registry.khronos.org

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 12/11/2024

With so many resources online, sometimes I get into analysis paralysis. I think I’m just gonna read DDIA and Database Internals for now and see where this takes me

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 12/11/2024

Looking forward to the incident report 😅

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 11/11/2024

Definitely. I don’t even glance at the summary and just scroll down to look for the sites I actually need

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 11/11/2024

Ngl, I never expected If-None-Match to be used this way. TiDB seems to be one of those databases that use S3 conditional writes for leader election.

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 10/11/2024

So many things I want to get good at concurrently that it’s making my brain go nuts

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 09/11/2024

Heading back home now after talking for hours with some friends. It was fun but I can’t wait to continue reading this book

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 09/11/2024

The convention was fun. Managed to snag myself some Persona 3 merch!!

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 09/11/2024

Thank God for this book. If I’m gonna be cooked alive for an hour, at least there’s something to keep me occupied

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 09/11/2024

On my way to a convention and I lost my earphones a few weeks a go so I’m taking this as a chance to read DDIA

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 08/11/2024

I’ve only just started getting into database internals and DuckDB has been quite fascinating to read from. You mentioned that there are other major databases that implement OCC but I can’t seem to find any. Can you share a few of them here?

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Nayyara @chevonair.com · 08/11/2024

I wasn’t really that active on X. Hopefully, I can change that on Bsky

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