Krishna Mannem

December 27, 2021

[wip] A simpler approach to secrets

eYaml eyaml lets git be your secrets source of truth. Take a look: 📝 I've recently learned of https://github.com/mozilla/sops. It's very similar and you might question why choose this project. I built this as a way for hobbyist to have a simple way to handle secrets. I can't afford to manage a vault instance and I deploy apps on a PAAS...
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March 7, 2021

[WIP] Selling Software

The world went through this phase two years ago where any company that hired software engineers marked itself as a tech company. Proclaiming great margins and unending market opportunity as SaaS successes that came before. We quickly learned Uber and Food delivery were not Salesforce. The margins include more than the software which br...
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March 6, 2021

Why did Google build Chrome

Something's not obvious to me. In 2003 with the death of Netscape and the coronation of Explorer as the browser wars champion why did Google start building Chrome? What's to gain? What's the incentive? The treasure hunt was over and the spoils weren't much. Yet in hindsight, it's obvious without obvious reasons. This is a live document...
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