The month before the crash was a very busy month at work. We had been working 15-hour days for several weeks. This was also the first time I was being on-call for a TSDB. I take my job extra-seriously when the word "database" is involved.
At the middle of last year I found myself at a very tricky spot. Work started to be weird. I knew that the ending was near. As the end of the year approached, I sort of started looking elsewhere and I found a spot with some folks that I had already known. So I resigned from Druva during November, and December something was my last day at druva.
So this took almost a year to pen down. Not because I was super busy or anything, but because I was too lazy.
After Durga Pujo in 2022, my brother, my cousin, and I found ourselves in our car. We were driving to Purulia in order to hike. Barely 2 kms from the house, we ended up getting hit by a Bolero Max truck. This was a fantastic collision (mainly because no one died). We were injured. Both the vehicles were seriously damaged.
This is just a brief summary of things. I will be creating larger/detailed posts about things later on.
Hello, I moved to Pune
I took a rather rash decision and moved to Pune at the end of January 2022.
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.
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.
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.
The tcp is a protocol that is responsible for making sure that small
packets of data can get to their destinations reliably.