Introduction I have always been conscious about privacy and it was the sole reason I wasn’t early adapter of smart home devices. This changed when I bought Raspberry Pi. I learned that I can make my Pi hub to all the smart devices at my home. And this is how I…

Introduction It’s no longer than a month since I bought a Raspberry Pi. Pi 4B to be precise. In this post, I’m going to log how I spent my 1st month with it. Setup the Pi When I decided to buy Raspi, I decided not to go with the kit. The reason was the…

Introduction I have seen many people coming from Python background struggling with Go. What I have obeserved it they write code that is limited to writing functions and calling them. They never leverage design constructs such as abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, composition etc. …

Introduction In Postman Premier — The Minimal Postman you need to Learn, I posted the minimum of Postman you need to learn. In this article, I’m going to expand on that knowledge and dig more into the response. …

Introduction Welcome to my Fullstack with Santosh. Today we are going to learn about how to use Postman as a backend engineer to make our daily life easier. Postman is an API testing tool where you can test your REST APIs. …

Introduction I recently conducted a poll in the Go community regarding which logging library they use in their personal or professional project. The results were interesting. In this post I have jotted down the most favorite logging libraries and here is my opinion about them. Poll Results Here are the poll results that…

An in-depth guide to save you money — Introduction Today, we are going to do a hands-on on how to kill a dangling EIP, or in other words, deallocate an unassigned Elastic IP. But before that, let’s talk about… What Is an Elastic IP, and Why Do We Need It? Elastic IPs are simply IP addresses provided by Amazon AWS. These are usually attached to internet gateways such as load…

Introduction Unlike FastAPI, Gin does not have OpenAPI integration built in. With FastAPI when you add a route, documentation is already generated. With Gin, this is not the case. But recently I integrated Swagger UI in one of my Go backends and I wanted to document that process. Prerequisites An already running…

Introduction The Internet has evolved in the last 2 decades a lot. HTTP/1.1 was not enough so we have HTTP2 now. The specification we used to transfer data between the client and the server has also evolved. From XML to JSON, now we have Protocol Buffer, which is a binary spec…