DEV Community: Divyansh Singh

AWS RDS vs Civo Postgres: Performance, Latency, and Cost Compared

Divyansh Singh — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000

** AWS RDS vs Civo Postgres: Performance, Latency, and Cost Compared **

Civo Kubernetes: Where Does Your Pod's Traffic Actually Go?

Divyansh Singh — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:00:21 +0000

** Civo Kubernetes: Where Does Your Pod's Traffic Actually Go? **

On Civo’s managed Kubernetes (built on K3s), worker nodes never get a public IP at all — only the control plane does. So no matter which node your pod lands on, its outbound traffic has to travel through that one public-facing gateway. It’s a deliberate architectural choice, and once you understand why Civo does this and how the routing actually works under the hood, a lot of things click into place.In this post we’ll cover:How Civo uses one IP for all pod egressWhat to whitelist when third parties require itEdge cases to avoid

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Your Kubernetes API Is Public — Here’s How to Make It Private

Divyansh Singh — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:20 +0000

** Your Kubernetes API Is Public — Here’s How to Make It Private **

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The Simplest AWS Security Hack I've Shipped in a Decade

Divyansh Singh — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:00:20 +0000

** The Simplest AWS Security Hack I've Shipped in a Decade **

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AWS Charges Extra for Storage Performance That Civo Ships by Default

Divyansh Singh — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:00:20 +0000

** AWS Charges Extra for Storage Performance That Civo Ships by Default **

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Automating Jira and Confluence Search from Slack using n8n

Divyansh Singh — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:00:22 +0000

** Automating Jira and Confluence Search from Slack using n8n **

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Stop debating Alpine vs Ubuntu and start measuring: here's why your network calls are 20% faster on Alpine.

Divyansh Singh — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:00:22 +0000

** Stop debating Alpine vs Ubuntu and start measuring: here's why your network calls are 20% faster on Alpine. **

If you've worked with Docker containers for any length of time, you've likely noticed that some operations perform differently across base images. One such observation that I noticed a few weeks back is the performance difference in curl requests between Alpine and Ubuntu Docker images.Many engineers have reported measurable performance improvements when using Alpine-based containers for network operations, with some seeing consistent 20 ms improvements over hundreds of curl calls. This isn't just anecdotal—there are concrete technical reasons why Alpine images can provide better network performance for certain workloads.In this article, we'll explore the technical factors behind these performance differences, provide testing methodologies to validate the claims, and help you make informed decisions about which base image to use for your containerized applications.

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How to Integrate Algolia Search into Your Django App

Divyansh Singh — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:00:22 +0000

** How to Integrate Algolia Search into Your Django App **

Django’s ORM is powerful, and PostgreSQL offers decent full-text search—but when you need real-time, typo-tolerant, and lightning-fast search across thousands of records, traditional methods fall short. This blog explores how to integrate Algolia into your Django project to unlock seamless search capabilities that feel instant and intelligent.

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Stop Wasting Money: Cut Your AWS EC2 Costs by 50% with Automated Scheduling

Divyansh Singh — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:00:21 +0000

** Stop Wasting Money: Cut Your AWS EC2 Costs by 50% with Automated Scheduling **

You can save cost by turning off non-production ec2 instances when they are not needed. Automating start and stop actions using AWS Lambda and CloudWatch can save costs significantly. Instead of scripting this from scratch, Terraform modules can help implement the solution quickly and cleanly.In this guide, we’ll walk through using the open-source terraform-aws-lambda-auto-start-stop-ec2-instances module to automatically start and stop EC2 instances based on tags and schedule expressions. We'll use a real-world example where EC2 instances are:Started at 10:00 AM ISTStopped at 10:00 PM ISTThis setup is useful for non-prod or testing environments that only need to be active during typical working hours.We'll use a wrapper module available at kubenine/ec2-auto-start-stop-terraform to configure this easily using Terraform.

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Supercharge Terraform with Cursor and MCP Server

Divyansh Singh — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:00:26 +0000

** Supercharge Terraform with Cursor and MCP Server **

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Saving Cost with EC2 Strategy but More Operational Overhead? What is Better: ECS Fargate vs ECS EC2?

Divyansh Singh — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:00:13 +0000

** Saving Cost with EC2 Strategy but More Operational Overhead? What is Better: ECS Fargate vs ECS EC2? **

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Rapid UI Prototyping with Python Streamlit: Audio Transcription, End-to-End

Divyansh Singh — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:00:54 +0000

Rapid UI Prototyping with Python Streamlit: Audio Transcription, End-to-End

Podcasts, video calls, and voice calls produces hours of speech every day. Turning that speech into text is now routine for meetings, customer-support calls, and more. A simple audio to text tool can help us capture conversations on meetings, phone or our smart watch - once recorded we can transcribe it and give it to things like chatgpt for all the wonderful insights possible. This project demonstrates how quickly we can build ready to use tools using Streamlit. As a showcase, we built an AI-powered Audio Transcription Tool that uses speech recognition models to convert audio into text with high accuracy. The app addresses a common limitation we found in nearly every transcription tool we evaluated — strict limits on audio length or file size, which made them impractical for long conversations.

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    We&apos;ve open-sourced this project for you all to try out: https://github.com/kubenine/Audio-to-text

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