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      <title>Jev Is the Missing Piece in Production AI Systems</title>
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      <description>Jev is a fast, probabilistic decision layer that routes production events before expensive reasoning begins.</description>
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      <title>Caching in the AI Era</title>
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      <description>How caching changed once LLMs entered the picture: what prompt caching actually stores.</description>
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      <title>Protecting Yourself from Malicious AUR Packages</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>On June 11, 2026, malicious actors pushed compromised PKGBUILDs to multiple AUR packages. Here&amp;#39;s what happened, why it matters, and how to protect yourself.</description>
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      <title>The Summarized World</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Are we losing depth in the age of short-form content ?</description>
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      <title>System Design Notes: Split Brain in Docker Swarm</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Understand the causes, consequences, and prevention of split-brain scenarios in Docker Swarm using Raft consensus and quorum-based leader election.</description>
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      <title>System Design Notes: Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Explore the Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP)</description>
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      <title>System Design Notes: Redis Pub/Sub with Go</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Learn how Redis Pub/Sub works, its limitations, how it compares to Go channels, and how to implement it using Go.</description>
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      <title>Why I&#39;m Going Back to Zathura reader</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>After trying various readers on Linux, I’m returning to Zathura for its speed, minimal UI.</description>
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      <title>9 Simple Tips to Escaping Social Media</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>My tips to step away from social media</description>
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      <title>Ghostty First Impression</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>I&amp;rsquo;ve tried Ghostty, and here are my quick review.</description>
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      <title>Goodbye Postman?👋 CLI Tools That Will Change Your API Testing Forever</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>A comprehensive guide to command-line HTTP clients(curl, HTTPie, and xh).</description>
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      <title>Uses</title>
      <link>https://blog.nimendra.online/uses/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Last Update: 2024-01-25&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id=&#34;introduction&#34;&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this article, I will share my personal technology setup and preferences. Inspired by &lt;a href=&#34;https://ericmurphy.xyz/uses/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;Eric Murphy&amp;rsquo;s fascinating Article&lt;/a&gt;
.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can explore my &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/nmdra/Dotfiles&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;Dotfiles here&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a repository where I store and share my configuration files for various applications and &lt;em&gt;Bash Scripts&lt;/em&gt;. Feel free to check it out! 👀&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;figure class=&#34;align-center &#34;&gt;
    &lt;img loading=&#34;lazy&#34; src=&#34;https://blog.nimendra.online/images/desktop.webp#center&#34;
         alt=&#34;My Desktop Preview&#34; width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;auto&#34;/&gt; &lt;figcaption&gt;
            &lt;p&gt;My Desktop With Favorite Applications&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;/figcaption&gt;
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&lt;h2 id=&#34;linux-distribution--desktop-environment&#34;&gt;Linux Distribution &amp;amp; Desktop Environment&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;🐧 Among the various Linux distributions available, my personal choice is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://manjaro.org&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;Manjaro Linux&lt;/a&gt;
!&lt;/strong&gt; It may have received some criticism from the Linux community, but in my opinion, it&amp;rsquo;s the only distribution that really hits the spot for me.🎯 I&amp;rsquo;ve tried Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, ArcoLinux, Linux Mint, and even ventured into Arch Linux territory, but Manjaro stands out as the perfect fit for my needs and preferences.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>About</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h1 id=&#34;about-me&#34;&gt;About Me&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;👋 Hey, I’m &lt;strong&gt;Nimendra&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;🎓 I’m currently studying &lt;strong&gt;Software Engineering&lt;/strong&gt; at the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.sliit.lk/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)&lt;/a&gt;
.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;💼 Former &lt;strong&gt;Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Intern at &lt;a href=&#34;https://wso2.com/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;WSO2&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;💻 I’m interested in &lt;strong&gt;Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, AI Integrations, Linux, Open Source, and Philosophy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;📚 Outside of tech, I spend my time reading &lt;strong&gt;sci-fi, self-help books, and manga&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h1 id=&#34;now&#34;&gt;Now&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Last update: 2026-03-19&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://nownownow.com/about&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;what is this&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m currently learning AWS, Kubernetes (K8s), Go (Golang), Distributed Systems, and System Design. Also exploring some ML concepts on the side.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Now i&amp;rsquo;m reading, (&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.goodreads.com/nimendra&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;goodreads.com/nimendra&lt;/a&gt;
)
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Will of Many&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sapiens&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;h1 id=&#34;contact-me&#34;&gt;Contact Me&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;🐦 Twitter: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://x.com/nimendra_&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;@nimendra_&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;👨🏻‍💼 LinkedIn: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimendra/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34; rel=&#34;noopener&#34;&gt;in/nimendra&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;📫 Gmail: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;mailto://nimendraonline@gmail.com&#34;&gt;nimendraonline@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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