Srijan Choudhary, all posts

Background For a recent project, I wanted to add a custom tag to data coming in from a built-in input plugin for telegraf.

Updated for 2023: I've updated this post with the following changes: 1.

Background At my work, we use Riemann and Zabbix as part of our monitoring stack.

I don't have a lot of data to backup - just my home folder (on my Archlinux laptop) which just has configuration for all the tools I'm using and my programming work.

We use relx to release out erlang applications, and faced a problem: Our application was crashing at bootup, and therefore we were not able to even open a remote shell on which we can run any correction functions.

There are many different ways to use replication in PostgreSQL, whether for high availability (using a failover), or load balancing (for scaling), or just for keeping a backup.

NOTICE: The solution mentioned in this post no longer works because Slack has closed down the IRC gateway.

Here are the steps I took for configuring Django on Freebsd using uWSGI and Nginx.

In many cases, it is required to run a system in such a way that it is tolerant of uncontrolled power losses, resets, etc.

For implementing feeds for the Isso commenting server, I was researching about atom feeds, and though I would jot down some notes on the topic.

I have been using Vim as my text editor for the last few years, and have been very happy with it.

I got interested in LibreOffice a few days ago, and wanted to contribute.

Recently I had to write some path finding algorithms in Erlang.

I have been using erlang recently for some of my work and private projects, and so I have decided to write about a few things there were hard to discover.