Yogesh Kumar

1 week ago | medium.com | Yogesh Kumar

On June 12, 2025, a single code path buried deep in Google’s infrastructure triggered a massive global outage. Spotify, Discord, OpenAI, and countless other services were knocked offline. Here’s what really happened – and what it teaches us about resilience at scale. At 4:48 AM Pacific Time, something strange started happening: Google Cloud services began throwing 503 errors.

1 week ago | medium.com | Yogesh Kumar

- Say goodbye to “it works on my machine” foreverImagine this:You clone a new project. It says, “Just run this one command.”But boom, your Python version is wrong. Some dependencies won’t install. You’re debugging your environment instead of writing code. đŸ˜©Sound familiar? What if I told you there’s a way to make sure everyone on your team, regardless of OS or laptop, gets the same development setup in seconds? That’s where Dev Containers come in.

2 weeks ago | newsdrum.in | Yogesh Kumar

New Delhi: Boeing Co. shares slumped 8% in premarket US trading on Thursday after an Air India aircraft, identified as a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed minutes after takeoff from Ahmedabad, raising fresh concerns around the planemaker’s safety record. According to aviation tracking site Flightradar24, the ill-fated Air India plane was among the most modern in commercial service.

2 weeks ago | ygsh0816.medium.com | Yogesh Kumar

Have you ever wondered how Google Maps can show you detailed maps of the entire planet almost instantly, and even lets you zoom and pan so smoothly it feels like butter? Spoiler: It’s not loading the whole world at once. The secret lies in something super clever called map tiling. Let’s dive in, no tech degree needed. Google Maps doesn’t use one giant image for the whole world; that would be way too big and slow to load.

3 weeks ago | ygsh0816.medium.com | Yogesh Kumar

If you’ve spent any time coding in Python, you already know that dictionaries are pretty handy. But here’s the thing: not all dictionaries are the same. Depending on what you’re building, some types can save you time, clean up your code, or even boost performance. In this post, we’re going to unpack the most useful kinds of dictionaries in Python: dict, defaultdict, OrderedDict, and Counter.