Tarun Kumar

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@Flipkart @flipkartsupport I ordered an iPhone during the GOAT Sale yesterday, today it's cancelled without any reason and hiked ₹2,000 more.
This feels like a bait-and-switch. If you can't fulfill orders placed during your sale, don't advertise those prices in the first place.

[Abhishek Singh @0xlelouch_]

Top 10 resources to learn observability (practical, for people on call):

1) OpenTelemetry docs + Collector
Reason: standard signals (traces/metrics/logs), real instrumentation patterns, vendor-neutral.

2) SRE Book (Google) + SRE Workbook (free online)
Reason: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, alerting that maps to user pain.

3) Observability Engineering (Charity Majors et al.)
Reason: how to design high-cardinality events, what to sample, what not to alert on.

4) Prometheus docs + Alerting best practices
Reason: you’ll learn what metrics are good for (and where they lie), plus alert rules that don’t page-flap.

5) Grafana Labs blog + dashboards examples
Reason: dashboard design, RED/USE, and how to avoid 40-panel mystery boards.

6) Honeycomb blog (even if you don’t use the product)
Reason: event-driven debugging, tracing workflows, practical incident writeups.

7) The Art of Monitoring (James Turnbull)
Reason: monitoring fundamentals that still apply across tools, especially thresholds vs symptoms.

8) Elastic Observability docs (or OpenSearch)
Reason: logs done at scale, parsing pipelines, retention, and query cost tradeoffs.

9) Workshops: Instrument a toy service end-to-end
Reason: build a small HTTP API, add OTel SDK, emit metrics, traces, structured logs, then break it with latency + 500s.

10) Practice project: run a local stack
Reason: docker-compose: app + OTel Collector + Prometheus + Grafana + Jaeger/Tempo + Loki; learn by wiring, then paging yourself with a real SLO burn alert

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@_amitbehere Can you share which brokers we can use?

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@tgspdcl there is no power in central park colony phase 1, Serilingampally from almost half an hour.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@Zephyr_hg Ideas

[To brothers @dear_brother9]

The best way to make money is solve problems for people who have money.

1. Sell women Beauty

2. Sell men Lust

3. Sell parents Peace

4. Sell kids Dreams

5. Sell the rich Safety

6. Sell the broke Hope

7. Sell the old Youth

8. Sell the young Status

9. Sell the lonely Belonging

10. Sell the sick Miracles

11. Sell the healthy Fear

12. Sell the smart Shortcuts

13. Sell the dumb Validation

14. Sell the faithful Certainty

15. Sell the faithless Rebellion

16. Sell everyone Time

You can make so much money. Try either. You can’t go wrong.

Choose where money is.

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

THINGS TO DO WHEN ENERGY DROPS!!!!!!!!!!

Morning tiredness → Get sunlight exposure
Afternoon slump → Take a short walk
Low motivation → Splash cold water on the face
Body stiffness → Do light stretching
Brain fog → Drink water
Low mood → Listen to music
Sleepiness → Get fresh air
Heavy mind → Try journaling
Restless body → Do quick exercise
Lack of focus → Practice deep breathing
Low drive → Revisit purpose
Slow mind → Read something inspiring
Low confidence → Use positive self talk
Mental clutter → Clean the workspace
Overload → Pause and reset
Boredom → Learn something new

Energy often returns when the body and mind start moving again.

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@Ai_Vaidehi Course

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@Shruti_0810 Money

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@AskCoachKev Send

[Mustafa @oprydai]

you need four hobbies. no more, no less.

create
bring something into existence. write, build, draw, code, cook. creation grounds you. it turns thought into reality.

consume
read books. watch films. study art. this feeds taste and perspective. good input sharpens good output.

cavort
move your body daily. walk, lift, run, dance. motion stabilizes the mind. a stagnant body distorts thinking.

commune
have a community. friends, family, peers. isolation corrodes judgment. shared reality keeps you sane.

miss one, and the system degrades.
keep all four, and life stays balanced, generative, and human.

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@Akshat_World @grok how can Indian citizen open US brokerage account to buy stocks

[Srishti @srishticodes]

Winter break well spent ❄️
No trips. No Netflix.
Just finishing AI courses most people never complete.

Here’s what genuinely moved the needle for me 👇

Courses that clicked:

Agents Course by Hugging Face: https://t.co/ezN88K6zuC
Finally made agents feel concrete instead of buzzwordy. Clear difference between agents vs workflows, plus hands on notebooks with smolagents, LlamaIndex, and LangGraph. You actually build things, not just nod along.

LangGraph by LangChain Academy: https://t.co/aX0JPuHQRI
This is where agent thinking leveled up. Stateful workflows, control flow, orchestration. You stop thinking in prompts and start thinking in systems.

Stanford CS230 Deep Learning: https://t.co/ab2x1htXb8
Great antidote to passive course consumption. Heavy on first principles and reasoning. Felt like learning how to think, not just what to use.

Kaggle Intro to Deep Learning: https://t.co/QaoF5JfF1Q
Quick and practical. Perfect for rebuilding intuition by training simple models and poking them until they break.

Books I actually finished:

AI Engineering by Chip Huyen
This should be mandatory reading. The AI stack, data, model adaptation, deployment reality. It explains what AI engineering really means in practice.

Building Applications with AI Agents by Michael Albada
Deep, practical, and production focused. The sections on orchestration and memory alone are worth it. Feels like a handbook, not a hype book.

If you’re stuck in tutorial hell and want to move from knowing models to shipping real AI products, this stack works.

Bookmark this for later.
Repost if you know someone trying to break out of prompt-only AI.

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@SanskritChannel 700

[Jaydeep @_jaydeepkarale]

7 System Design case studies that will teach you more than any CS degree ever will

[Sumanth Raman @sumanthraman]

Hindu priests asking Hindus to vote for the BJP is communal. Christian pastors asking Christians and Muslims to vote for the DMK is secular. Mind it. 😀

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@TestoConsultant Question

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@Zephyr_hg NEWS

[Tarun Kumar @itscsetarun]

@bigdatasumit SQL Superstar