Category Archives: programming

Monitoring AWS Costs

Posted on February 14, 2026 by Siddharth Jain

To view your cost breakdown goto Billing and Cost Management -> Cost Explorer and under Group By select Usage Type Selecting Usage Type will provide you with more granular detail e.g., it will show what exactly in EC2 – Other … Continue reading →

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Stay Off the Grid: Routing Internal Traffic via Route 53 Private Hosted Zones

Posted on February 12, 2026 by Siddharth Jain
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Comparison of different ways to connect to EC2 instance

Posted on February 3, 2026 by Siddharth Jain

i am confused with so many access methods provided by aws – native ssh, ec2 instance connect, session manager and now serial console – that’s 4. why doesn’t it provide 1 recommended and best method to connect to ec2 instances? … Continue reading →

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Convert Word to Markdown

Posted on January 15, 2026 by Siddharth Jain
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Useful Windows Commands

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Get all the system info Get RAM details Get total expandable RAM Get SSD info Get OS info Get motherboard info Get CPU info Get BIOS Get networking info List installed software Tip: Do not install wmic. It is deprecated. … Continue reading →

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Running Spring Boot application with springdoc-openapi behind NGINX

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Suppose you want all requests prefixed with /api to be forwarded by NGINX to spring boot. There are 2 common options: So when a request like GET /api/foo is made when it reaches spring boot, spring boot sees a request … Continue reading →

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Not able to play audio in Java

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Siddharth Jain
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GCP vs AWS

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

I will cut the chase by saying GCP is better. Here’s why I think so: In terms of pricing and customer service I think both are similar (in fact GCP seems just a bit cheaper) so my review is based … Continue reading →

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Windows Security Tips

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Probably the most important tool is Windows Defender. Press Win+R followed by wf.msc and check all the inbound rules. Delete ones you don’t recognize – it can be difficult. Useful powershell commands: this is equivalent of ss -tpln on Linux. … Continue reading →

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10 Svelte Tips for a Backend Engineer

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Svelte is currently my framework of choice for frontend web development. Further Reading

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