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Oitihjya Sen
Personal blog · otee.devprogrammingcareer
Oitihjya Sen's personal blog at otee.dev covers programming and career. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-06, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as a detailed account of moving a personal URL shortener from Heroku to Google Cloud Platform and swapping PostgreSQL for YugabyteDB. The only comment is a neutral description with the link.
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Backend engineer and former lawyer writing about distributed systems, legaltech, and Indian policy.
What Hacker News says?
Recently, I was forced to migrate an old personal project (a URL shortening app) from Heroku to Google Cloud Platform. Why? Because Heroku terminated their free plans and there is no plausible way to pay for their premium plans from India. While at it, I decided to use YugabyteDB as the database instead of PostgreSQL. Here's a detailed account of how I did this: https://otee.dev/2023/01/08/migrating-heroku-to-gcp-an…
Comment linking /2023/01/08/migrating-heroku-to-gcp-and-yugabyte.html
on “Moving from Heroku PostgreSQL to YugabyteDB”Submitted Kicking Around Packets: Understanding How the Internet Works as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Promises in JavaScript and Clojure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving from Heroku PostgreSQL to YugabyteDB as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Moved My Cheese: Laziness in Clojure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2021 Rewind: A Lawyer Becoming a Software Developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Lawyer Learns to Code as a story · 1 points
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