In a high-traffic microservices system, CDC with Maxwell and SQS struggled with data mismatches and delays. By creating a custom SQS batched producer, I improved throughput by 10x, reduced CPU and memory usage, and restored reliable synchronization between services.
Category: Blog
Personal insights, ideas, and knowledge shared on a range of topics — mostly related to IT, but occasionally touching on other areas of interest.
Send WiFi Credentials to ESP32 with Flutter using SmartConfig
In this blog I will try to explain how to use esp_smartconfig library in Flutter to create a mobile application that sends WiFi credentials to an unprovisioned ESP32 device using the SmartConfig protocol. This article also serves as a written version of my YouTube video on the same topic: I…
Headless Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS
Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 in a headless configuration with Ubuntu Server can be an efficient and powerful way to deploy a compact server at home with a very little human interaction. This guide will walk you through the process, from flashing the SD card to configuring it for…
Seeing Book Characters with AI: My Experience with “Crime and Punishment” and Midjourney
Using Midjourney, an AI tool, I transformed my mental images of characters from Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” into actual visuals. This added a new dimension to my reading experience. To truly value these visuals, I suggest diving into “Crime and Punishment” and unraveling the characters’ complex world.
Discord Bot hosted on ESP32-CAM takes photos
Not too long ago, I found the time to spruce up my esp-discord library, introducing the ability to send attachments and embeds. This update proved to be just the spark of inspiration I needed to dust off my ESP32-CAM board that had been idling away on my desk. The result?…
ESP-IDF on WSL2 – Build, Flash and Monitor
After I published a post about idfx (tool for flashing ESP-IDF applications on WSL2) I have decided to describe in this post a complete process about how to install ESP-IDF on WSL2 and how to use idfx. This post is written form of my youtube video about the same topic….
idfx – Tool for flashing ESP-IDF apps on WSL2
If you haven’t already heard for WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) that is a great feature of Windows that lets us to run Linux OS directly on Windows like any other application, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dualboot setup. WSL2 becomes very helpful especially for the…