Journey from one addiction to many new ones. I started smoking at the age of 18. For the next 18 years, my love-hate relationship with cigarettes crossed all limits. It took a lot of soul-searching and hard work to finally call it a day in 2020. Why Am I writing? I am not writing…

Let the brain do what it wants, and it will give you peace in return. — For a long time, I have considered daydreaming as a sign of laziness. I will always beat myself for doing it. I feel it’s counterproductive. I have always believed in the phrase — “You snooze, you lose,” even though I would snooze the morning alarm a million times before dragging…

It’s an emotional problem. Please don’t try to solve it with intellect. — What are the top three legal addictions in the world? Alcohol, Cigarettes, and prescriptive pain killers top the charts. I am not referring to the addiction to drugs and illegal substances. It’s a problem of a different magnitude. Will power, discipline, or self-control are the most obvious answers to deal…

Ideally, I wanted to title the article as “My Right Bum” but that might not have attracted the right kind of audience. Hence, I kept it a little technical (Gluteus Maximus) and being in IT (Information Technology) for over a decade, this goes well with my nerdy profile. The objective…

Let’s practice impromptu speech delivery. I have written about the significance of public speaking in the past. I started this writing series on table topics some months back. Before we dive into today’s topic, below is a quick introduction to Table Topics What are Table Topics? In Toastmasters, “Table Topics” is a segment where…

Let’s practice impromptu speech delivery. I have written about the significance of public speaking in the past. I started this writing series on table topics some months back. Before we dive into today’s topic, below is a quick introduction to Table Topics What are Table Topics? In Toastmasters, “Table Topics” is a segment where…

azapi_resource I wrote about the Dynatrace for monitoring Azure functions in my last article. The article covered the use of Terraform for installing the Dynatrace extension. In this article, I will show how to install the extension on the Azure app service. The steps are almost the same, but I…

azapi_resource Terraform is a programming language to provision cloud infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code). IaC is all about provisioning infrastructure through software. It helps achieve consistent and predictable environments. The biggest advantage of Terraform is that it uses the concept of state files to deploy changes. The state file allows Terraform…

timeadd(formatdate(“YYYY-MM-DD’T’HH:mm:ssZ”, timestamp()), “4320h”) Azure Key Vault is Microsoft’s cloud solution to store secrets and certificates. Enterprise applications can fetch them using Key Vault URLs. It enables easy and secure management of passwords and connection strings. Every secret has an expiry attached to it. In my current company, it’s mandatory to…