https://www.s11a.com/ Full-stack engineer. full-time nerd en-us https://www.s11a.com/articles/technical-docs-writing-guide/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/technical-docs-writing-guide/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Misc Documentation isn't about being clear. It's about empathy. Here's what I've learned about helping people understand complex technical concepts without making them feel stupid. https://www.s11a.com/articles/design-principles-behind-my-zed-config/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/design-principles-behind-my-zed-config/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Backend Zed is fast, native, and endlessly configurable. Here's the thinking behind every section of my settings.json — from AI-first workflows to typography obsession to dual-theme ergonomics. https://www.s11a.com/articles/stop-wasting-time-how-to-be-productive-after-work/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/stop-wasting-time-how-to-be-productive-after-work/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Productivity Have you ever wanted to be productive after work but are constantly exhausted? That was me until I discovered these few things that helped me stop wasting my evenings... https://www.s11a.com/articles/testing-routes-secured-with-oauth2-and-passportjs/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/testing-routes-secured-with-oauth2-and-passportjs/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Backend I recently started poking at the developer experience of the Node.js world. As a Java dev by day, I wanted to learn the JS community patterns on a lower... https://www.s11a.com/articles/my-custom-operator-mono-vscode-setup/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/my-custom-operator-mono-vscode-setup/ Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Backend VSCode provides a ton of config options. Here I'm documenting some of my favorite appearance changes. At the moment my editor looks something like this: https://www.s11a.com/articles/writing-a-cosmos-db-stored-procedure-with-continuation/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/writing-a-cosmos-db-stored-procedure-with-continuation/ Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Cloud We will explore one of the essential features of Cosmos DB - pagination and continuation tokens. Below is a brief look at a robust & practical implementation... https://www.s11a.com/articles/building-a-batch-pipeline-with-java-2-writing-the-job/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/building-a-batch-pipeline-with-java-2-writing-the-job/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Backend The first post in this series went over some fundamental concepts and interfaces you will encounter as a developer using Spring Batch. Now, let's build on... https://www.s11a.com/articles/making-garlic-bot-more-random-with-a-self-scheduling-serverless-function/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/making-garlic-bot-more-random-with-a-self-scheduling-serverless-function/ Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Cloud On a snowy day a while back I threw together a project to explore serverless functions. For whatever reason I decided the world needed a Twitter garlic 'bot'.... https://www.s11a.com/articles/creating-a-github-bot-with-go/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/creating-a-github-bot-with-go/ Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) DevOps Recently I started digging around looking to automate some simple tasks that were being repeated as part of a release management process for a bunch of... https://www.s11a.com/articles/building-a-batch-pipeline-01-crash-course-in-spring-batch/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/building-a-batch-pipeline-01-crash-course-in-spring-batch/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Backend The last post took look at a Spring Batch project template to get off the ground quickly. In this series we're going to take it a step further and use the... https://www.s11a.com/articles/a-spring-batch-quickstarter/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/a-spring-batch-quickstarter/ Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Backend Spring Batch is touted as the leading batch framework for the JVM. I personally haven't used many batch frameworks in Java, but it wouldn't necessarily be the... https://www.s11a.com/articles/rapid-development-and-accessible-dropdowns-with-downshit/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/rapid-development-and-accessible-dropdowns-with-downshit/ Sat, 12 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Frontend Admittedly I'm probably a bit late to the game on this one, but I stumbled on downshift and have been impressed! Developing with it feels fast. It offers so... https://www.s11a.com/articles/speeding-up-my-postman-workflow-with-scripts/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/speeding-up-my-postman-workflow-with-scripts/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) DevOps I just found out I've been heavily underusing Postman - the Postman team has baked in a Node.js environment that allows for scripting before and after... https://www.s11a.com/articles/cloning-discords-login-form-to-mess-with-styled-components/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/cloning-discords-login-form-to-mess-with-styled-components/ Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Frontend I've been eyeing styled-components for a while now, so I decided to throw together a clone of the Discord login form to get a feel for developing with the... https://www.s11a.com/articles/javascript-push-to-the-beginning-of-an-array/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/javascript-push-to-the-beginning-of-an-array/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Frontend I've decided to document random things that I google or put together after a few google searches. I figured if folks find it helpful, then that's awesome.... https://www.s11a.com/articles/a-css-snippet-for-a-responsive-list-of-items/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/a-css-snippet-for-a-responsive-list-of-items/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Frontend CSS still scares me. Even after using it everyday for years I'm always fascinated by the number of ways that exist to do something and the new features that... https://www.s11a.com/articles/migrating-my-hosting-to-netlify/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/migrating-my-hosting-to-netlify/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Cloud I like new things. AWS has an endless amount of cool things in its services, but site hosting in buckets just doesn't have that "shiny" new feel. My CI/CD... https://www.s11a.com/articles/speedy-secured-site-hosting-made-easy-on-aws/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/speedy-secured-site-hosting-made-easy-on-aws/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Cloud I recently migrated this site's hosting to AWS and was pleasantly surprised to find that you can host a static, secure website with a custom domain on the AWS... https://www.s11a.com/articles/persistent-volumes-on-openshift/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/persistent-volumes-on-openshift/ Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Cloud There have been a number of instances where a project or demo I’ve been a part of has the need to serve and retrieve static content (i.e files like .pdf,... https://www.s11a.com/articles/luigi-an-open-source-etl-tool/ https://www.s11a.com/articles/luigi-an-open-source-etl-tool/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT saiguy@icloud.com (Sai Nimmagadda) Backend When developing a production ready data pipeline, there are a number of aspects to consider aside from simply developing functional code. For example, a...