Arvind Rai

Views are personal. Scorpion. Engineer. Anti-Establishment.

[Arvind Rai @iamarvindrai]

Sir, english version would have been better.

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

“दो तारीख़ को जंतर मंतर पर गरारा बजे गणेश कुमार और सिर के ख़िलाफ़ प्रोटेस्ट होगा। उसकी परमीशन पुलिस से माँगी गई है। उम्मीद है की पुलिस दे देगी। सरकार जरूर इस को रोकना चाहेगी, लेकिन पुलिस सरकार की नौकर नहीं है”

[Arvind Rai @iamarvindrai]

Yeh aadmi aliens ko kuchh to code bhej raha hai... No one on earth is able to decide what those numbers means what will go wrong if numbers are not in order?

[Amitabh Bachchan @SrBachchan]

T 5820 - A huge error by me in the numbering .. apologies ..
after 5817 .. it should read 5818 , 5819, 5820
🙏
thank you Ef Sunil for correcting me

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Proud of this kid. He seems amazing. Humbly, It feels like your channel is exploiting him to invalidate other kids. Maybe the next time a bridge collapses you could interview someone who took a longer route to work and got promoted. Instead of engineers or people under it.

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

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[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Well done @aroonpurie, Your channel has overtaken Suresh Chavhanke's Surarshan TV. 👏

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

The real shift came when we stopped fixing queries one by one and started studying usage patterns.
Which data is read far more than it is written
Which data changes rarely
Which data must always be real time
Which data can tolerate delay
Those answers mattered more than any index

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

That is what finally stabilised the system.
Not one big rewrite.
Not more hardware.
But understanding how small decisions behave when multiplied across the country.
At national scale, tiny assumptions become big problems. Follow for real lessons from building at scale here...

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

Caching then became a design choice, not a performance patch.
Some caching happened at entity level.
Some at AWC level.
Some at individual record level.
Combined with simpler queries and fewer joins, database pressure dropped sharply.

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

The Architecture Evolution
What actually broke at scale and what fixed it
(Thread)

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

If you rush, you break things and lose people.
If you move steady and clear, the entire system moves with you. The third skill is to keep things simple.
Simple flow. Simple screens. Simple expectations.
The more you complicate things, the more friction you create.

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

It is usually workflow, clarity or simple habits.
If we fix that, the tech part becomes easier. The second thing that people ignore is patience.
Large systems move slowly because so many people are part of it. It takes time to align everyone and build trust.

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

This is something many tech teams ignore, but it decides success or failure. Before writing any line of code, I spent time listening to the real users Frontline workers, supervisors, state teams, everyone.
Most of the time the problem they face is not technical at all.

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

When people think about building a national platform, they think of big servers, complex code and huge data.
But in my experience, the real challenge starts much earlier. It starts with understanding people and how they actually work in the field.

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

If you focus on these three, your technology will stand strong even at massive scale. I will share more such learnings in the coming days. Follow along if you enjoy real stories from real work.

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

A national platform grows only when it is simple enough for everyone to use with confidence. So the most underrated skills in building a national platform are not rocket science. They are listening, patience and simplicity.

[TheTechGuy @TheGovTechGuy]

The Most Underrated Skill in Building National Platforms
(Thread below)

[Arvind Rai @iamarvindrai]

Sorry to say but you are putting his career at risk with this image.

[Dr. Ragini Nayak @NayakRagini]

कभी-कभी चुनाव प्रचार के दौरान बहुत सुखद संयोग भी हो जाते हैं !

‘रहुई’ की जनसभा के दौरान ‘थाना प्रभारी’ जी अचानक मंच पर आए और बोले

“मैडम, आप हमारी अध्यक्ष थीं !
हम ‘रामजस’ college में पढ़ते थे..आपको DUSU अध्यक्ष बनाने के लिए वोट किए थे” ✨

20 साल पुरानी यादें ताज़ा हो गयीं ✨

[Puneet Sharma @PuneetVuneet]

एक हिंसक आंदोलन से किसी देश का तख्तापलट देखते ही, वो सत्ता समर्थक भी एकदम से उसके विरोधी दिखने लगते हैं, जो राजनीतिक हिंसा के समर्थक हैं। वो ऐसी हिंसा के विरुद्ध लोगों को चेतावनी देने लगते हैं। ये लोग बस उस बंदूक के समर्थक हैं, जो केवल इनके हाथ में रहे।

जय हिंद, जय मस्तिष्क

[Arvind Rai @iamarvindrai]

वहाँ की मीडिया को भ्रम था कि सरकार की चाटुकारिता करके वे अमीर बनते रहेंगे और किसी को इससे कोई फ़र्क नहीं पड़ेगा।

[Chitra Tripathi @chitraaum]

नेपाल की भीड़ ने सत्ता पक्ष- विपक्ष -होटल -मीडिया हाउस-पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री के घर के साथ लोकतंत्र के सारे प्रतीकों को जलाकर भस्म कर दिया.

लगेगी आग तो आएंगे घर कई जद में,
यहां पे सिर्फ हमारा मकान थोड़ी है'-
राहत इंदौरी

[Arvind Rai @iamarvindrai]

Ab to post hata le besharm

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

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