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New City; Pune

Hello, I moved to Pune

I took a rather rash decision and moved to Pune at the end of January 2022.

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Work Update; Joining Druva

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 on building early versions of new products that the company can offer.

The Opportunity

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Storage-Benchmark

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.

What/Why Benchmark ?

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Raspberry-Pi-Cooling

Got a raspberry Pi 4(8gb). I ran a bitorrent on-it and used it mainly as a seedbox. Primary target was seeding Libgen torrents. This was fine for a while and there was no significant heating.

Now, I want to turn this into a local home-storage/home-media server. This will be some work for the small computer and needed some active-cooling.

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TCP - Notes

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

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Stack Frames in x86

A very brief primer on x86 Stack Frames. Stumbled onto this while
reading about Linux performance monitoring tools. It's been a while

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Personal Accounting

I used to hate accounting when I had the subject in my Undergrad. It
seemed extremely complicated for no apparent reason.

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Confused At 2020

I am confused. When I got out of college i thought I had a plan. I
would work for 2 years and then I would go off to university. I wasn't