Otto's Tales - Episode 1Meet Otto. Otto is a software engineer who has a gift for stumbling into the wrong situation at exactly the right time. Every week he lands in a real world mess — and the only way out is a surprisinglJun 15 · 6 min readabhimurali.hashnode.dev
GSoC 2025: Building a Modern Network Monitoring Interface with SwitchMap-NGI’m approaching the final stretch of my Google Summer of Code 2025 journey with The Palisadoes Foundation, and it’s been an incredible experience. Over the past few months, I’ve been working on modernizing the web interface of SwitchMap-NG, an open-s...Oct 22, 2025 · 3 min readabhimurali.hashnode.dev
What’s New in SwitchMap-NG: Connection Charts, Frontend Testing, and a Config UISwitchMap-NG keeps growing into a more visual, reliable, and user-friendly tool for network monitoring. In earlier posts, I walked through the addition of: Network Topology – interactive graph of all devices and links. Devices Details Page – histor...Sep 22, 2025 · 3 min readabhimurali.hashnode.dev
Optimizing Metrics Pipelines: From Database Design to Frontend PerformanceModern systems need to do more than just display data — they need to collect it reliably, store it efficiently, and expose it cleanly for frontend components. In my recent work on SwitchMap-NG, a network monitoring system, I focused on strengthening ...Aug 26, 2025 · 4 min readabhimurali.hashnode.dev
Frontend Polish, Backend FoundationsEvery project reaches a turning point. For SwitchMap, it’s moving from refining the frontend to laying the groundwork for a smarter, more capable backend. Tooltip DOM Cleanup When you attach HTML elements (rather than plain strings) to node.title or ...Aug 12, 2025 · 4 min readabhimurali.hashnode.dev