u/sneekeeei

I read Pudhumaipithan’s Kanchanai. It’s the first in the 100 best short stories collection curated by S Ramakrishnan.

It’s good as this short read. But I am not sure why this is well regarded short story and gets placed in 100 best ever short stories of Tamil.

I am just curious to understand what others who read this short felt about it.

Am I feeling so because it was written many years ago and we have been exposed to so much similar content after that?

14 years in data engineering. Recent years deep in Palantir Foundry with Professional level certs, cleared 4 Anthropic’s certifications, maintaining production GenAI pipelines at scale. I understand LLM math, common architecture patterns, and I’ve led delivery end to end.

What I’ve never been is a coder in the traditional sense. No LeetCode grind, could not build a code repo from scratch.. like I would not know when to split into a new script, when to write a new function, when to put something in utils., when to write a helper function . My depth is platform and delivery, not algorithms.

That’s starting to hurt in interviews or applying to jobs. I keep hitting loops gated on CS fundamentals I don’t have, even for roles that look like what I already do.

For anyone who's been here, strong platform and production experience, thin on classic coding interviews, how did you navigate it? Fill the gap directly, target companies that don't gate on it, or lean into platform specialization as the differentiator?

Is there a way to set a hard budget cap on an AWS account? I know you can create budgets and set up threshold alerts, but is there a way to actually stop services and prevent the bill from going any higher once you hit that budget?

As an individual just trying to learn, I don’t mind if my services get shut off, but even a bill going above 500 USD in a month would be a serious financial problem for me. If you set a budget alert at 100 USD and the bill shoots up to 1000 USD before you even get a chance to act on the alert email, what’s the point of the budget and alerts in the first place?

எஸ். ராமகிருஷ்ணனின் ‘யாமம்’ நாவலில் சதாசிவ பண்டாரம் என்ற கதாபாத்திரத்தை ஆசிரியர் அஃறிணையில் குறிப்பிடுகிறார். ஏன் என்று யாரேனும் விளக்க முடியுமா?

நான் தற்போது நாவலில் 25% மட்டுமே படித்திருக்கிறேன்

எஸ். ராமகிருஷ்ணனின் ‘யாமம்’ நாவலில் சதாசிவ பண்டாரம் என்ற கதாபாத்திரத்தை ஆசிரியர் அஃறிணையில் குறிப்பிடுகிறார். ஏன் என்று யாரேனும் விளக்க முடியுமா?

நான் தற்போது நாவலில் 25% மட்டுமே படித்திருக்கிறேன்