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"01a08722-7fd6-737d-86f9-6b368d6f27e1", "title": "Weekly Bullet #4 - Summary for the week", "url": "https://akshayd.dev/posts/weekly-bullet-4-summary-for-the-week/", "published_at": "2019-04-13T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08722-7fd6-737d-86f9-6b368dc7f0dd", "title": "Weekly Bullet #3 - Summary for the week", "url": "https://akshayd.dev/posts/weekly-bullet-3-summary-for-the-week/", "published_at": "2019-04-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08722-7fd6-737d-86f9-6b368e80eede", "title": "Weekly Bullet #2 - Summary for the week", "url": "https://akshayd.dev/posts/weekly-bullet-2-summary-for-the-week/", "published_at": "2019-03-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08722-7fd6-737d-86f9-6b368f15ea6d", "title": "About / Contact", "url": "https://akshayd.dev/about/", "published_at": "2019-03-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08722-7fd6-737d-86f9-6b368f3c0a16", "title": "The Journey Begins", "url": "https://akshayd.dev/posts/the-journey-begins/", "published_at": "2019-03-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { 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29 Aug 2026

How LLMs Work, Part 2: Inside a Transformer Block original ↗

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Two Layers, One Mental Model: How I Stopped Fighting My AI Tools original ↗

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2025

Prometheus: Static/Dynamic scraping on EKS original ↗

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Message delivery in Distributed Systems original ↗

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25 Jan 2024

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2023

[DDIA Book] : Data Models and Query Languages original ↗

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Docker: A list of most frequently used commands original ↗

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19 Aug 2021

[Performance] : Understanding CPU Time original ↗

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Elastic Search Best practices original ↗

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[Performance] : What does CPU% usage tell us ?original ↗

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17 Feb 2021

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31 Jan 2021

2020

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30 Dec 2020

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29 Dec 2020

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30 Nov 2020

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20 Nov 2020

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26 Oct 2020

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22 Oct 2020

[Performance] : Flame Graphs original ↗

26 Apr 2020

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15 Mar 2020

[Performance] : Java's built in diagnostic tool - Jstat original ↗

22 Jan 2020

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13 Dec 2019

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8 Nov 2019

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4 Nov 2019

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6 Oct 2019

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Shell Scripting for Performance Engineers and others - [Part 1]original ↗

30 Apr 2019

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28 Mar 2019

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25 Mar 2019

The Journey Begins original ↗

25 Mar 2019

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25 Mar 2019