I just deployed ElectVerse, an AI-powered educational platform designed to make the Indian electoral process simple, interactive, and engaging for everyone. 💡 The Vision Interactive Timelines: Visualizing the flow from nomination to results. 🔗 Check it out live: https://electverse-1005430992890.asia-south1.run.app/ Building this has been an incredible journey of combining civic tech with cutting
I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based stora
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed