https://sinisterlight.com/Recent content on Sinister LightHugo -- gohugo.ioenTue, 07 Nov 2023 17:58:54 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/library/Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/library/https://sinisterlight.com/post/internet-as-a-file-system/Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:58:54 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/internet-as-a-file-system/reposting from - https://blog.shovel.company/p/internet-as-a-file-system Web1.0 - Genesis August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee announced the “WorldWideWeb” to a newsgroup called alt.https://sinisterlight.com/post/evolution-of-microservices/Tue, 03 May 2022 17:58:54 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/evolution-of-microservices/Since the dawn of time, we have been finding better ways of building systems.https://sinisterlight.com/post/start-with-monolith/Wed, 02 Jun 2021 12:26:20 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/start-with-monolith/My primary guideline would be “don’t even consider micro-services unless you have a system that’s too complex to manage as a monolith.https://sinisterlight.com/post/implementing-sre/Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:56:42 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/implementing-sre/This document was written by me, deba and prashant wrote this document for observability whitepaper written by CNCF’s sig-observability group.https://sinisterlight.com/post/tech-lead/Sat, 06 Mar 2021 15:24:32 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/tech-lead/“Tech Lead” is a leader of engineers in a team. If there is no team, there is no Tech-Lead.https://sinisterlight.com/post/startup-maturity-model/Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:09:01 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/startup-maturity-model/Startups are a dynamic world, if not looked carefully they can appear chaotic.https://sinisterlight.com/post/going-faster/Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:58:54 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/going-faster/Speed is necessary in technology businesses. Challenges faced by these companies change all the time.https://sinisterlight.com/post/cto-maturity-model/Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:26:20 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/cto-maturity-model/Bangalore and the rest of the South-east asian ecosystems have exploded with start-ups over the last couple of decades.https://sinisterlight.com/post/signing-out/Mon, 31 Aug 2020 19:52:28 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/signing-out/A big thank you! Before joining Gojek, We were running a small startup called CodeIgnition.https://sinisterlight.com/post/economy-of-scalable-engineering/Sun, 09 Aug 2020 22:58:21 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/economy-of-scalable-engineering/Last 5 years, I have been busy building Gojek, seeing this rocket ship grow from 10 million to 10 billion.https://sinisterlight.com/post/my-user-manual/Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:17:15 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/my-user-manual/Gojek has a culture of writing user manuals, after couple of years of procastination finally writing one.https://sinisterlight.com/about/Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:50:09 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/about/I’m Shobhit. These days I live in Bangalore with my wife — the last decade spent here, building software.https://sinisterlight.com/talks/Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:50:09 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/talks/ [Apr 09, 2025] “Agents & Engineering” | South Park Commons, Bangalores - deck [Jan 06, 2024] “Internet as a File-System” | FOC Meetup, Bangalore [Jan 01, 2024] “Future of decentralised tech” | Living on the Blockchain, EP 74 - podcast [Dec, 2023] “Internet as File system” | FIL Bangalore - deck [Mar, 2022] CTO & Founders Mixer : Panel Discussion | In Collaboration with 8VC @ Stellaris Venture Partners - Video [Sep 26, 2021] “Becoming Succesful in 21st century” @ SoSE Launch Event - deck [Nov 29, 2020] “Becoming Succesful” @ IIT Jodphur Fresher Orientations - deck [Oct 12, 2020] “OKRs in action” @ KukuFM - deck [Feb 9, 2019] “How Kafka solved a culture problem at GOJEK” @ YourStory Future of Work, 2019 - deck [Mar 16, 2016] “Hidden features in Ruby you may not know about” @ RubyConf India - deck [Sep 13, 2015] “Mopping up Networking Nightmares” DevopsDays India - deck [Nov, 2014] “Automating Infrastructure” - Delhi ruby meetup - deckhttps://sinisterlight.com/post/art-of-writing-rcas/Sun, 29 Mar 2020 01:56:47 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/art-of-writing-rcas/Recently I have been reviewing RCAs filled by Engineers all over the company, to understand what are the common patterns that we need to improve on.https://sinisterlight.com/post/kafka-solved-culture-problem/Thu, 14 Feb 2019 01:59:43 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/kafka-solved-culture-problem/Software stopped us from scaling, software set us free. Software can solve cultural problems.https://sinisterlight.com/post/team-focused-on-eventually-automating-everything-2/Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:12:56 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/team-focused-on-eventually-automating-everything-2/This is Part 2 of a feature story on Team Lambda and what it aims to do.https://sinisterlight.com/post/team-focused-on-eventually-automating-everything/Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:59:09 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/team-focused-on-eventually-automating-everything/Lessons in untying dependencies and letting machines do the workhttps://sinisterlight.com/post/subjective-interviews-to-binary-hires/Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:44:52 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/post/subjective-interviews-to-binary-hires/Hiring is not easy, and sometimes we fail to do it right.https://sinisterlight.com/blog/2014/12/08/the-vicious-circle/Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:16:00 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/blog/2014/12/08/the-vicious-circle/Let me tell you a story about a boy named Johnny.https://sinisterlight.com/blog/2014/01/31/digital-ocean-secretly-wants-you-to-switch-to-larger-droplets/Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:17:00 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/blog/2014/01/31/digital-ocean-secretly-wants-you-to-switch-to-larger-droplets/Digital ocean is a hugely popular cloud services provider. Recently crossing 1 million launched VMs.https://sinisterlight.com/blog/2013/06/15/hello-world/Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:52:00 +0530https://sinisterlight.com/blog/2013/06/15/hello-world/