Sky Singh

During my time as a Devops Engineer at Vance, we were running around 80 ETL pipelines on AWS Glue, but as our workloads scaled, so did our costs — hitting a staggering $10,000 per month. This wasn’t sustainable. After analyzing our pipeline, we realized that AWS Glue’s serverless nature was costing us heavily for idle time and unnecessary compute To fix this, I migrated our ETL workloads to Apache Airflow, running on EC2 instances with ECS, and orchestrated everything using Terraform. The result? A 96% c...

Hacktoberfest : The right way to do open source When October began, Me and some seniors at our club Point Blank were wondering how we can get the new and existing members of our club to contribute to Open Source and Hacktoberfest. In this blog I will outline and answer the common doubts related to open source contributions and how to make Hacktoberfest worth it for not only you, but the community as well. Intro I am Akash Singh, a Backend Developer and Open Source Contributor. Here is my LinkedIn, GitHu...

Back in our first year, me and my friend Abhyuday went to our first hackathon called Hackman v6. As a team of first year students, we didn’t expect much other than a learning experience and free coffee. However, we ended up beating all of our college seniors and making it to top 10 of that hackathon. Even though we didn’t win that hackathon, we both understood this is something we are good at. Since then, me and Abhyuday along with various peers went for n number of hackathons, maintaining a winning str...