Madhukar Prabhakara
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How to create Custom notification channels in Laravel


Recently, I needed to integrate Pushover with my app so users could connect their individual Pushover accounts and get push messages from my web app…
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Free Uptime monitoring app for your webapp – without the compromise


Uptime monitoring of web applications has gotten expensive. Well, there are many free tools out here but they almost always make us compromise on the…
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AI is real, but will it take your job?


I have been using AI for over 2 years at different capacities. At work, to build solutions for the social sector organizations to make it…
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Handy PostgreSQL commands


I am maintaining this as a running article to document all the useful ProgreSQL commands that I encounter and use regularly. Kill all active connections…
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Brainwashed and hypnotized


There is an entire industry and PR machinery out there that is literally brainwashing developers to not touch servers and not know anything about deployment…
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Why I Built My Own Website Uptime Monitoring Tool


I was in a situation recently where we needed to use a website uptime monitoring service at work. We run many dedicated customer sites and…
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Understanding Your Customer: The Make-or-Break Factor for B2B SaaS Startups


I was struggling for a long time to choose a title for this post before settling for what you see today. The subject deserves special…
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Perfect example of leadership that I won’t ever forget


I was never a good student. Not good at studies, never scoring well on tests even flunking exams. For a middle class Indian family flunking…
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Routing traffic to servers on specific ports based on host header using HETZNER and nginx


We are in the middle of migrating from AWS to Hetzner, and if you have ever been on these major migration projects, you’d know the…
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How to design good quality surveys and avoid common mistakes


It is amusing that even years after surveys were invented and used for data collection purposes, we still need to talk about how to design…

Madhukar Shedthikere Prabhakara
CTO @sopact




