Devops

Hybrid Lab-to-Cloud: Map the Data Path Before Building It

The transfer agent was “done.” S3 had objects. Downstream Batch jobs still saw empty prefixes for hours. Nobody could say whether the instrument was late, the poller was stuck, or a completion marker never arrived.

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From Varnish and Drupal Tuning to Platform Engineering

In 2013 I wrote about Varnish in front of Drupal and where Drupal sites actually lose performance. The stack was Apache, PHP, MySQL, SSH, and a lot of hand-tuning. Today I work on AWS Batch, multi-region Terraform, and hybrid lab-to-cloud integrations in life sciences. The logos changed; the job did not.

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The Blog Is Back on shameem.in

I used to write about Linux, Drupal, caching, and open-source tooling on LinfoPage.Com and my Blogger site. Those posts are from a different chapter — support engineering, LAMP stacks, Varnish, and early Raspberry Pi days — but they are still useful reference material.

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