Blogs on Hitesh Patel

Stop Nesting If Statements. Use Guard Clauses

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0530

Nested if statement works, but they are not readable and make debugging a nightmare. There are better ways to handle things — use guard clauses.

9 Dart Syntactic Sugar Features That Make My Codebase Happier

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0530

9 Dart Syntactic Sugar I Can’t Live Without – Features That Make My Flutter Development Easier

Queues — The Backbone of Modern Architecture

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530

Understand how message queues form the backbone of modern distributed systems — enabling scalability, fault tolerance, and smooth communication between services.

Securely Accessing Private RDS Databases Using SSH Tunneling and a Bastion Host

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0530

Learn how to securely access a private AWS RDS database using SSH tunneling through a bastion host — a secure, cost-effective setup that avoids Elastic IP charges.

How We Streamlined Support Replies Using LLMs and RAG

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:53:48 +0000

While helping our support team to resolve a client query, and joking about how AI will replace developers, and the support team no longer needs us. I found out that they also use ChatGPT to draft replies, making them more professional and formal.

On diving deep, I found out a few problems they face consistently

repetitive replies
Time wasted on formatting the response
Inconsistency in tone and writing style in the response

We decided to make this streamlined so that they don’t have to leave the support panel, and build a chat assistance for the team

How did I host my own blog Ghost CMS + AWS

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:39:00 +0000

After exploring Hashnode, Dev.to, and Medium, I decided to self-host my blog, not for performance, but for control. Here’s how I did it with AWS, Ghost, and a minimal budget.

🧰 TL;DR: Self-hosted my Ghost blog on AWS EC2 (t2.micro) using a custom Nginx setup with /blog routed. Faced installation challenges due to CPU limits, solved it with a t2.large temp instance.

How It All Started

It all started when I was in college and watched a video by Quincy Larson, creator of FreeCodeCamp, about why developers must have a blog. So I started geekaid.in. After writing on it for a while, I dropped it a year ago as it stopped aligning with what I originally thought of.

Android's Shift to 16Kb Page Size - What It Means for Developers

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 05:32:06 +0000

Recently, i opened my linked in and everyone is talking about the update by AOSP (Android Open Source Project) is transitioning from using 4KB memory pages to 16KB. While reading many posts i got learned this will lead to performance boosts, To know more i dive a littler deeper.

After reading the official post, here’s what I found:

What’s Changing?

The 16KB page size is supported only on ARM64 architecture and device running Android 15 and above.