Akash Rajpurohit

How we cut another $28,900 a year off our AWS bill at Levels.fyi by rethinking database backup retention, filtering WAF/CDN logs, trimming Lambda logging, and routing internal API traffic through PrivateLink

Running a few products solo means a lot of things can quietly break while you're not looking.

A relative needed a website for their wholesale catalog.

Your database just corrupted at Midnight.

Your backend needs a database.

Skip the analysis paralysis.

Your hosting choice makes or breaks your project.

Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring solution with Docker stats, historical data, and alerts.

Why chasing titles can derail your actual growth - and why the highest-paid engineers often have the most boring job titles.

Your app just crashed over night because you hit the 4GB RAM limit.

Why obsessing over perfect code is killing your career while developers focused on business impact are getting promoted and making millions.

Essential security hardening commands to secure your fresh VPS fast.

Why managing engineers at 100% capacity is like maxing out your servers - it leaves no headroom for when the real challenges hit.

Redlib is a blazing-fast, privacy-first alternative frontend for Reddit built in Rust.

Rybbit is a modern, privacy-first analytics platform that serves as a compelling alternative to Google Analytics.

Discover SafeLine WAF, an intelligent self-hosted Web Application Firewall that uses AI to protect your web services.

Learn how to secure your homelab with fail2ban, an intrusion prevention tool that automatically blocks malicious IP addresses.

SearXNG is a privacy-focused metasearch engine that aggregates results from various search engines.

Stirling PDF is a powerful, locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files.

n8n is a powerful workflow automation tool that helps you connect and automate your self-hosted services.

Paperless-ngx is a powerful document management system that helps you go paperless by automatically organizing and making your documents searchable.

Immich is a high-performance, self-hosted photo and video backup solution that rivals Google Photos in features and user experience.

A comprehensive guide for Indian software developers working with foreign clients on how to receive payments, handle taxes, and manage GST compliance.

Authelia is a powerful authentication and authorization server that provides secure Single Sign-On (SSO) for all your self-hosted services.

Speedtest Tracker is a self-hosted internet speed monitoring tool that helps you track your ISP's performance over time.

Learn how to self-host the beautiful selfh.st/icons collection and keep it synchronized with the upstream repository using git-sync

Ntfy is a simple yet powerful pub-sub notification service that lets you send push notifications to your phone or desktop from any of your self-hosted services.

2024 has been an amazing year for my homelab journey.

MeTube is a web UI for youtube-dl/yt-dlp that allows you to download videos from YouTube and other platforms.

Recently I migrated my homelab from using Nginx with local domain certificates to using Caddy with automatic SSL certificates from Cloudflare.

Learn how to automate updating your AWS security group with your current IP address using a simple Bash script.

PairDrop is a self-hosted file transfer service that allows you to transfer files between devices seamlessly.

Let's see how to mount a drive permanently in Linux using the fstab file which will mount the drive automatically on boot.

Over the years, I have learned a lot of things through building projects.

Recently I moved my Jellyfin to an Orange Pi 5 Plus server.

Since ages, I have been collecting lots of movies, TV shows, and music.

Syncthing is one of those tools which have made my life easier.

So you are seeing high CPU usage from cAdvisor, well I was too.

Happy to share that I have added a new member to my homelab, a Orange Pi 5 Plus.

Tailscale is another service that I use in my homelab setup to access my services outside my network.

GPG is a powerful tool that allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications.

GPG is a tool that allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications.

I have been using Ansible to manage my homelab infrastructure.

Let's talk about AdGuardHome, a network-wide ad blocking software that you can run in your homelab.

Nginx is a powerful reverse proxy that I use in my homelab to expose services to the internet.

Running Docker containers on your Raspberry Pi can be a great way to explore different software and services.

In this article, we will discuss the key considerations for building a read-heavy system and how to ensure its success.

In this article, we'll discuss crucial considerations that can guide you towards success in building a write-heavy system and help you navigate the complexities of managing high volumes of write operations.

In this article, we will discuss what is the thundering herd problem and how you can tackle it effectively when designing a system.

In this article we will explore the Bulkhead pattern, a pattern that can help you build more resilient systems.