Currently working on an LLM-based chatbot system for an educational institute.
The goal is simple: help students get accurate answers to their doubts using the institute’s own study material.
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27-May'26:
Configured whole ci-cd pipeline for whole codebase using GitHub actions , Fluxcd and Used K8s and AWS EKS for deployment.
Tip: Choose the OCID of AWS for github actions over Access_key + Secrete as it gives the temp acess to the resource.
As a Backend Developer,
Please slap yourself if you cannot clearly explain atleast 10 of the following:
HTTP vs HTTPS
TCP vs UDP
DNS resolution flow
What happens when you type a URL
REST vs GraphQL
Idempotency in APIs
Rate limiting strategies
Authentication vs Authorization
JWT vs Sessions
Cookies vs Tokens
Caching (Redis, CDN, cache invalidation)
Database indexing
SQL vs NoSQL trade-offs
ACID vs BASE
Normalization vs Denormalization
Connection pooling
N+1 query problem
Pagination (offset vs cursor)
Load balancing (L4 vs L7)
Horizontal vs Vertical scaling
CAP theorem
Event-driven architecture
Message queues (Kafka vs RabbitMQ)
Async vs Sync processing
WebSockets vs HTTP
API versioning strategies
Retries, backoff & circuit breakers
Distributed systems basics
Consistency models (strong vs eventual)
Database transactions
Sharding & partitioning
Cold start problem
Observability (logs, metrics, tracing)
Monitoring vs alerting
Docker basics
CI/CD pipelines
Graceful shutdown
Timeouts & retries
Security basics (XSS, CSRF, SQL injection)
API gateway role
College 9–5. Internship grind 6 PM–1 AM. Wake up at 8 AM. Repeat.
Somewhere between deadlines, lectures, and sleepless nights, life turned into an endless loop of chasing goals.
Building the future, one exhausted day at a time.
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