ANABHINAND N.Minabhinand.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 8 min readPayment Gateway Explained: What Actually Happens When You Pay Online?Whenever you buy something online using a card, UPI, net banking, or a wallet, the payment seems simple: Enter payment details → click Pay → payment successful. But behind that button, several syste00
ANABHINAND N.Minabhinand.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 5 min readFrom JSON to Cloud Run: Building My First RAG AI Agent with Google ADKToday, as part of the Google Gen AI APAC Academy Cohort 3, I built and deployed a customer-facing AI agent for a coffee shop using Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK), Gemini, Retrieval-Augmented Gen00
ANABHINAND N.Minabhinand.hashnode.dev·Aug 23 · 5 min readAPIs Explained: How Applications Talk to Each OtherHave you ever wondered how a weather app gets live weather data, how a payment app communicates with a bank, or how your frontend talks to a backend? The answer is often APIs. API stands for Applicati00
ANABHINAND N.Minabhinand.hashnode.dev·Aug 15 · 3 min readFree Ways to Host Your Projects in 2026 You built a project. It works perfectly on your laptop. Now you want to put it on the internet — without paying for hosting. Good news: there are several platforms that make this easy. Here are some o00
ANABHINAND N.Minabhinand.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 1 min readAre you an AWS Free Tier user? Read this before you get hit with a massive surprise bill.If you are using the AWS Free Tier, beware: a single forgotten resource can result in a massive surprise invoice. Leaving a temporary test environment running or forgetting an unattached EBS volume ha00