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About Me

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That's me!

Hello World! My name is R. Sivasubramanian, also known as Siva around the web. I'm a Senior Software Developer based in Chennai, India 🇮🇳

I've been writing code for over 9 years now. My weapons of choice are PHP and Node.js on the backend, though I dabble in frontend work too. Lately I've been diving into the world of DevOps — wrangling AWS infrastructure, automating things with Ansible, and living in the Linux terminal.

I currently work at KRDS where I build and maintain web applications that people actually use. When I'm not coding, you can find me tinkering with servers or writing about tech on this very blog.

// This site is intentionally designed to look like it's from 1998.
// Because the old web was beautiful and I miss it.

Blog / Dev Log

Automating Server Provisioning with Ansible NEW!

📅 2026-02-04

Been diving deep into Ansible lately. Wrote my first playbook that sets up an entire LEMP stack from scratch — Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, the works. No more SSHing into servers and running commands manually like it's 2010. Here's what I learned and the gotchas I ran into...

ansibledevopslinuxautomation

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Why I Still Love PHP in 2026

📅 2026-01-20

Everyone keeps telling me PHP is dead. Meanwhile I'm here building high-performance APIs with PHP 8.3 and its JIT compiler, using Fibers for async operations, and deploying to production with zero downtime. Let me tell you why PHP is far from dead...

phpopinionbackend

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Setting Up AWS EC2 the Right Way

📅 2026-01-08

As someone who just started with AWS after years of managed hosting, the learning curve is real. Here's my no-nonsense guide to launching your first EC2 instance with proper security groups, key pairs, and not accidentally leaving port 22 open to the world...

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Node.js Streams: The Unsung Hero

📅 2025-12-15

Had to process a 2GB CSV file the other day. My first instinct was to read the whole thing into memory. Bad idea. Enter Node.js Streams — the feature that's been there since v0.10 and most people still don't use properly. Here's how they saved my server...

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Cool Links

PHP.net
The official PHP website. My bread and butter.
Node.js
JavaScript runtime for building fast backends.
Ansible Docs
Where I spend most of my time these days.
Amazon Web Services
The cloud that runs half the internet.
Hacker News
My daily tech news fix. Orange site best site.
Cameron's World
A tribute to the old web. Inspired this site's design!