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# Ganya J

@ganya · Bangalore, India · Joined May 2026

🐧🧠Living below the abstraction layer

### [Our MySQL Master Was Slowly Dying and Nobody Wanted to Talk About It](https://ganya.hashnode.dev/our-mysql-master-was-slowly-dying-and-nobody-wanted-to-talk-about-it?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A memory fragmentation rabbit hole, three staging disasters, and a production master swap that took less time than the meeting we had about it.

15 min read · [ganya.hashnode.dev](https://ganya.hashnode.dev/our-mysql-master-was-slowly-dying-and-nobody-wanted-to-talk-about-it?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Jun 17](https://hashnode.com/posts/our-mysql-master-was-slowly-dying-and-nobody-wanted-to-talk-about-it/6a327900aaf3723ff953599c)

### [Breaking apart a server that had no business being together](https://ganya.hashnode.dev/breaking-apart-a-server-that-had-no-business-being-together?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A fresher's honest account of decoupling Django and React on AWS - VPCs, security groups, ALB rules, SSH gateways, and everything that broke before it worked.

7 min read · [ganya.hashnode.dev](https://ganya.hashnode.dev/breaking-apart-a-server-that-had-no-business-being-together?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[May 10](https://hashnode.com/posts/breaking-apart-a-server-that-had-no-business-being-together/6a00b217e3eebc2e20a0c8c8)