Boringinproduction.Deliberate.
I move databases, run the Kubernetes clusters and keep the scammers out. Before I touch production I draw the whole system and look for what breaks first. The rollback is written before the rollout.
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Twelvepods.Oneload-bearing.
Delete one and find out which.
Diagram of how Shubham is wired, as a list. Each item names a node and what it connects to.
- Shubham (me): Backend engineer, SDE-2, Gurgaon. Three years of shipping things that have to stay up under real traffic. Every other box on this diagram feeds into this one. — connected to Draw it first (thinks first), Senku, Dr. Stone (inspired by), Short answers (speaks in), Bad actors (defends against), Databases (on call for), Jageshwar (comes from), Sense of humour (holds it all up)
- Draw it first (how I work): Before I touch anything I draw every database, pipeline and handoff, then look for the piece that breaks first. Usually it is the one nobody owns. This page is that habit, pointed at myself. — connected to Shubham (thinks first), Rollback first (then plans), ₹0 infra (limits)
- Rollback first (how I work): Crons get suspended, not deleted. The old server stays up until the new one has run for a week. The rollback is written before the rollout. I have needed it, which is the point. — connected to Draw it first (then plans), Databases (taught the hard way)
- ₹0 infra (constraint): Side projects run on free tiers only, by rule. This site costs nothing to host. The limit makes the problem better, like a crossword. — connected to Draw it first (limits)
- Senku, Dr. Stone (role model): The scientist from Dr. Stone. Methodical, unsentimental, rebuilds civilisation from zero with a plan and a grin. His confidence interval: — connected to Shubham (inspired by), Manga (found via)
- Manga (reads): Where Senku came from. I read a lot of it. — connected to Senku, Dr. Stone (found via)
- Databases (day job): I move databases between homes without taking them down. I have been burned enough to respect them, which is why the rollback is written first. — connected to Rollback first (taught the hard way), Shubham (on call for)
- Short answers (how I talk): I say less than people expect. I would rather be precisely wrong and get corrected than vaguely right and get nodded at. — connected to Shubham (speaks in)
- Bad actors (day job): Trust and safety. Scammers, spam, fake profiles. Someone is always trying to get past the system, so the system has an opponent. I like having one. — connected to Shubham (defends against), Sense of humour (same kind of puzzle)
- Jageshwar (roots): My family is from Jageshwar in Kumaon: a valley of 124 stone Shiva temples in a deodar forest. I built an endless painting of it. It is the one project here that is not a joke. — connected to Shubham (comes from)
- Sense of humour (holds it up): The jokes are not a side thing. Same instinct as the engineering: find how something is built, then push on it until it is absurd. Delete this pod if you doubt it. — connected to Shubham (holds it all up), Bad actors (same kind of puzzle), Wordle (daily)
- Wordle (daily): Every day. No exceptions. — connected to Sense of humour (daily)
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Find the seam
I draw your whole system and mark where it breaks first. It is usually the thing nobody owns.
Quoted per system
Cutover watch
A migration plan, a rollback plan, and someone calm awake on the call while it happens.
Quoted per migration
Play the opponent
I go after your signup, reporting and rate limits the way a scammer would, then tell you what worked.
Quoted per surface
Enquire
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Where the family is from. The other side has the painting. This side has the readout.
guest@prod:~$ _
A shell into the cluster that runs me. kubectl get pods · dig MX terimummy.com · weather jageshwar · kubectl delete pod sense-of-humour. None of it is real infrastructure. The moderation is real enough. Mind your language.
NAME READY STATUS
shubham 1/1 Running
sense-of-humour 1/1 Running load-bearing
wordle 1/1 Running
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