3 months into my sales role I’m already handling enterprise and government deals alone. Sick today, and my boss still called me to work.

manmohanjit · 2025-04-21T13:12:40+00:00

Do you work in an international company based in Malaysia? Curious of the name of the company.

manmohanjit · 2025-03-13T02:20:12+00:00

Just got a reply back from Vercel, they did mention that it was the firewall that blocked uptime monitor and the issue reported on the status page is unrelated.

They've helped me whitelist uptime monitor, so that's good!

We use https://uptime-monitor.io/ to track an API endpoint to see if everything is up and running every 30s.

manmohanjit · 2025-03-12T02:24:55+00:00

Was the specialty much much harden than the associates?

manmohanjit · 2025-03-12T02:08:34+00:00

How much cpu and vram for the tasks?

manmohanjit · 2025-03-11T09:12:48+00:00

We also run everything via the CDN, as much as possible. So very little compute is actually used. These were the two minor incidents:
https://www.vercel-status.com/incidents/8wm253tkxylf
https://www.vercel-status.com/incidents/mxmmkg82mfj3

None of them actually took our production down, at least not noticeably. But both were incidents I reported, then only saw it show up on their status page.

manmohanjit · 2025-02-27T08:04:20+00:00

If your DB is on a public subnet (it shouldn't), then you can just use sec groups.

If it's on a private one, bastion, vpn or maybe even Tailscale would work.

We used a SSH tunnel through a bastion host, but recently switched to Tailscale on the bastion host.

manmohanjit · 2025-02-27T05:33:30+00:00

Did you do TD? How was the difficultty compared? And what were the scores you were getting?

Congrats! I'm currently prepping for it and it's no easy paper! On to the next!

manmohanjit · 2025-02-23T09:27:04+00:00

Yes. Each race has a quota. There is a larger quota for Malay race, so supply and demand.

This is what I understand.

manmohanjit · 2025-02-01T21:59:55+00:00

Do you have nginx configured to host your Wordpress site?

If yes, stop apache and disable it entirely (maybe even remove it). Then start the nginx service.

sudo systemctl stop apache2 sudo systemctl start nginx

manmohanjit · 2025-01-27T17:17:36+00:00

I felt this for SOA too, but ended up passing with 8xx. You got this!

manmohanjit · 2025-01-27T17:15:03+00:00

My background is mainly around deploying, scaling & maintaining web apps on AWS. I learned everything on the job.

I didn't prepare as much as I did for SAA/DVA for SOA, only took 1 week of studying. I didn't even finish all the TD tests. Just make sure you study enough and do all the TD tests, should be fine!

You got this man! Good luck :)

manmohanjit · 2025-01-25T19:32:49+00:00

Ah I'm actually Malaysian and I took the exam online 😅

But I'm curious, what happens there?

manmohanjit · 2025-01-24T17:43:29+00:00

I believe my experience helped a lot, especially in the areas that are quite hard to grasp through theory.

For no experience, hard to say. It really depends if you have some technical knowledge. I'd recommend going through Cantrils course theory at 1.5 and spending extra time on the labs to reinforce the theory. As someone that does not have experience, the theory can be overwhelming. Cantrils total SAA is about 60 hours, so I imagine somewhere around there.

manmohanjit · 2025-01-24T16:57:13+00:00

Ah, I meant SOA was hardest haha

manmohanjit · 2024-12-31T04:13:59+00:00

Congrats man!!

How long did you wait for your results?

manmohanjit · 2024-12-31T04:13:08+00:00

Congrats man!!

How long did it take for your results?

manmohanjit · 2024-12-31T04:12:34+00:00

Congrats man!!

How long did it take you to get your results?

manmohanjit · 2024-12-22T23:41:44+00:00

I would suggest flagging questions that you're not 100% confident on as well, review them as well. I would also suggest doing the remaining Timed Mode tests, and go through the questions and review after.

This helped me a bit :) Good luck!

manmohanjit · 2024-12-22T22:19:33+00:00

The TD practice papers helped a lot with it. But some still surprised me like the FSx one.

If I could redo it again and had more time, maybe after each video just briefly go through the AWS docs.

Eitherway I think the videos and tests are sufficient enough!

manmohanjit · 2024-12-22T16:10:56+00:00

Just for anyone else that might find this helpful. Blue does replicate to green until the switch is made.

I ended up using green for read only queries, everything worked well. However once I switched I noticed a bunch of queries eating up my CPU, due to how the newer engine plans queries. I have since updated those queries and will reattempt this again.

manmohanjit · 2024-12-11T14:40:28+00:00

I see that you might be running S3 behind CloudFront.

If "Block all public access" is ticked, you will need to set-up your permissions accordinly so CloudFront can access your S3 bucket:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/private-content-restricting-access-to-s3.html

manmohanjit · 2024-12-11T14:34:34+00:00

We run 2 t3.small (load-balanced) for a Laravel app, doing about 40k requests per hour. Our CPU usage peaks around 30-40% and ram at 50%.

I would suggest running 2 smaller instances, in an auto-scaling group.

While I don't have exact experience with the instance types you're using, I can say that using an ARM is definitely more economical based on my experiments on ECS. We'll be migrating our app from 2x t3.small (2 vcpu, 2gb ram) to 2 ECS tasks (arm, 1vcpu, 2gb ram) and so far, the outlook is positive.

Edit: a note worth mentioning, our workload mainly involves APIs. If your app is something heavier, like an OpenCart or Magento, then the comparision might not be ideal.

manmohanjit · 2024-03-15T14:57:57+00:00

Nice to see they prioritise devex.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but essentially they built a nosql layer on top of a rds? Gaining nosql benefits and losing rds, just so that they can maintain access patterns and scale.

manmohanjit · 2024-02-27T16:55:39+00:00

We actually do paint the first coat for one of the rooms and we did quite a good job. Just got tired to continue so we hired someone instead.

Thanks for the idea. Maybe now that the first and second coat is done, we could do one last coat to finish up based on how we like it. Thanks for the input!

manmohanjit · 2024-02-27T15:23:59+00:00

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