The Feathered Bond: Insights from Raising Birds of All Sizes
Years of keeping Sun Conures, Green Cheek Conures, parakeets, lovebirds, and pigeons — what hand-raising, adult adoption, and bird size taught me about avian trust.
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Musings
Long-running thoughts on building, logic, freedom, and the occasional detour into Tamil and philosophy of mind.
Looking for a new Role
Archival, 2022 — written between Reckonsys and the next chapter. Kept for the honesty: the post where 'VP of Engineering' got corrected to 'a glorified Tech Lead that took on a part-time VPE role'.
#career
3 min read
Hi, I'm dhilipsiva
The 2017 dev.to introduction post — a small time capsule: ten years of coding, Appknox, and 'currently learning more about Machine Learning'.
#career
1 min read
Architecture at AppKnox
The 2015 write-up of Appknox's backend: three subsystems (Client, Data, Workers), Django + Celery + RabbitMQ + Postgres, a decoupled Ember front-end — and services named after Sherlock characters.
#architecture#python#security
7 min read
Appropriate Number of Gunicorn Workers
The 2n+1 rule for Gunicorn workers, a one-liner to apply it on any Linux box, and the StackOverflow answer it came from.
Python Libraries — Django, Twisted, Tornado, Flask, Cyclone and Pyramid
A 2013 field guide to picking a Python web framework — recovered from the original dhilipsiva.com via the Wayback Machine.
#python
3 min read