1Ramp is a Steem-Blockchain based social media for the creative communities. It rewards cryptocurrency to the users for sharing valuable work on the platform. — The Blockchain-based Projects advocate for decentralization. One part of decentralization is to open-source the code and invite the developers to suggest ideas, improve, and build a better platform. HapRamp’s Alpha Web App is open-source and it can be accessed on our GitHub organization: HapRamp-GitHub.

A journey from hardly serving an 8 min song to instantly streaming 5 hour jukeboxes in AnyAudio — AnyAudio is a hobby project which I started with my friends in the 2nd year of my engineering. As of now, it consists of an API server (which also serves media 😅), a React-based PWA (at least that’s what I am trying to make it), and an Android app. …

How to’s and best practices about private posting key for your next DApp. — The Steem blockchain has rewarded more than $22 million to its users since June 2016. And with its API being released for public usage, we’ve seen many applications built on the top of it like Busy, DSound, DTube, Steepshot, etc. These platforms provide users with a different interface to do…

The World Mood Tracker was added to loklak apps with the feature to display aggregated data from the emotion classifier of loklak server. The next step in the app was adding the feature to display the stream of Tweets from a country as they are discovered by loklak. …

A major part of my GSoC proposal was adding stream API to loklak server. In a previous blog post, I discussed the addition of Mosquitto as a message broker for MQTT streaming. …

The loklak server was in a process of moving to Kubernetes. In order to do so, we needed to have different Docker images that suit these deployments. In this blog post, I will be discussing the process through which I optimised the size of Docker image for these deployments. Initial Image The…

Storing server dumps on Kubernetes with Google Cloud Platform — In an earlier blog post, I discussed loklak setup on Kubernetes. The deployment mentioned in the post was to test the development branch. Next, we needed to have a deployment where all the messages are collected and dumped in text files that can be reused. In this blog post, I…

Lightweight streaming for IoT devies — In loklak server, messages are collected from various sources and indexed using Elasticsearch. To know when a message of interest arrives, users can poll the search endpoint. But this method would require a lot of HTTP requests, most of them being redundant. …

Automation, health checks, load balancing and data persistence — Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It’s an awesome system, which ensures reliable operation of cloud applications. It supports automated health tests, smart roll out and rollbacks, simple scaling and a lot more. So as a part of GSoC, I worked on…