Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳

Using AI to solve real problems 🔍. Full-time husband 💍 Ridiculously pro Europe 🇪🇺. Ex-@meta

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

My first public outage (which got customers emailing me!!)

Here's the conclusion of the story

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So I realised, even Cloudflare's daily limits on D1 weren't good enough for me. Finally, I decided to move to a self-hosted API instead. Also successfully migrated all servers to @Hetzner_Online

None of the DB service platforms are built to handle a high row-read load.

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@dillon_mulroy @kitlangton @opencode Mass Effect

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@SantoshYadavDev How can someone look at your beautiful faces and think that! Just how?

Haters are crazy

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@rudrank Link?

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@agermanidis DMed :)

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@agermanidis Hi Anastasias! I'm a UK-based Senior API Engineer - have shipped a STS + STT Voice API this year and an MCP server when they weren't cool. Would love to chat!

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Bro was about to share but do you remember the reverse-engineered Rightmove API I shared with you? I pretty much run it off of Hermes agent now to get a result similar to Casa.

It searches for houses and also goes through description + photos to tell me if it's a good fit

I'm sure there's still some business model in there.

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@kapilgorve @mindmusclepro Also UK has the most expensive grocery bills in Europe (even higher than US) - so that's my comparator

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@kapilgorve @mindmusclepro Prawns is defo cheaper. Interesting about chicken - but I think meat is also subsidised by the govts in West

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@kapilgorve @mindmusclepro damn bhai India is so cheap 😅

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@grok @dillon_mulroy @thdxr @supabase Mario Zechner???

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@threepointone Berwick? Alnwick? Could be either

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@ThePrimeagen @ryanvogel where can I buy this shirt?

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@SantoshYadavDev Lolol sicher, wir können zusammen üben

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97 in Writing. 91 in Speaking. I genuinely didn't expect these scores on my German B1 exam 🫡. A year of studying while working full-time, and it actually paid off 🔨

Super grateful to everyone who encourage me to study and continue on with my language-learning journey. Especially to my family - @thematsci_gal @jshirish68 and my colleagues at DeepL. It's them and their language-learning journies that inspired me to keep on going!

Will I do the German B2? Probably next year 😅. But I'll be experimenting with the French language till then!

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@Infoxicador Haha not really. I've got a few more languages to cover. I'm gonna do French next

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@soorajchandran_ Applied 🫡

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@soorajchandran_ Hi Sooraj, DMed you about this :). Should I apply directly as well?

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@lmkifiwin This is an allegory for AI enhanced employees.

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What do you get when you put 25 community-focussed builders in a single room? You get the Looking For Growth West Midlands Hackathon 🤯.

The past Saturday I had the opportunity to fulfill one of my dreams - participating in a hackathon as a judge - and I couldn't have chosen a better one. It was hosted in the classy The Exchange | University of Birmingham venue.

The winners were wild:

🏆 Ozzy - a live chatbot dashboard for a city's publicly available data
🏆 A Solar-to-Industry development map
🏆 Koan - a travel app built entirely around Warwick University students

What got me was how specific every project was. Nobody built "another AI wrapper." Every team picked a real local problem and went after it. If you're running community hackathons outside London - keep going. This is where the next wave of builders is coming from.

The vibes in the room were impeccable 🤌, everyone who couldn't be there should be highly jealous! A huge thanks to @lfg_uk team again for making the event possible!

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Love to work in ambiguity and always build my own things. The DeepL MCP Server was one of the first ones in the market I built on a gut feeling that Agentic was going to be the future of AI.

Would love to get feedback on the articles I've written on this on my blog - https://t.co/mLBYmujIAv

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Hey Sooraj, this is right up my alley.

I've been building AI agents and MCP integrations at DeepL for the past year - built multiple internal MCP connectors (Slack, Chargebee, Salesforce) that became the standard integration pattern across the company, plus the public DeepL MCP server. Also led the Claude Code rollout across engineering.

Based in the UK, fully remote. Would love to chat!