Browsed by
Author: Nikhil Wanpal

Participating In A 24 Hour Hackathon

Participating In A 24 Hour Hackathon

Just returned from a 24 hour hackathon, sleepy, red-eyed, tired, exhausted and yet writing this post. You know why? Because I skipped it the last time, and the time before, thinking I will do it the next day and that sleep was more important, but never did it. Not going to make the same mistake again. So here I am. For those who are unaware of what a hackathon is, it is an event where dreamy eyed people enter and…

Read More Read More

Docker As Application Registry

Docker As Application Registry

Docker As Application Registry Docker is great and solves a lot of problems with deployments. It taught VMs to share the resources, like how VMs taught hardware to share resources! Along with production, I have found that docker can work great as an application registry in a local development environment.By applications I mean software that you install on your OS and launch them with shortcuts and they continue to live and retain state till you uninstall them; not exactly what…

Read More Read More

Jetbrains messed up our license: Jetbrains still rocks!

Jetbrains messed up our license: Jetbrains still rocks!

Jetbrains messed up our license: Jetbrains still rocks! It is story time today. We are a small startup, by small I mean like 4 people on the team and we established barely a couple months ago. It was time to start development and like all good Java developers depend on their IDE for their life, we did too. Too soon to go off-topic, but I wonder sometimes how large a program can I write without an IDE. There is no…

Read More Read More

Creating a Coding Interview Problem

Creating a Coding Interview Problem

Creating a Coding Interview Problem At work, I have been responsible for conducting the coding tests during the interview process, and have been doing that for over a few years now. Over the time I have made some mistakes, learnt some things and this post is a summary of what one should consider when creating a coding test. Coding tests are generally the first round of interview; it is either online or on campus, depends, but a coding round is…

Read More Read More

Yet another packager for node

Yet another packager for node

Yet another packager for node There are so many packaging systems for node already, or maybe not as many, so here I am presenting another way to package your applications into an self extracting executable that has no dependencies. Ah well, a few dependencies, like the processor architecture, and Linux operating system may be, but that is all. What is it? It is a modified shell script originally used to create self-extracting and installing applications for Linux platforms. What it…

Read More Read More

Opinionless Comparison of Spring And Guice as DI frameworks

Opinionless Comparison of Spring And Guice as DI frameworks

Recently I had to delve into the play framework for a particular microservice at work. Now it is not exactly new, nor is Guice, nor DI, but coming from Spring world it was still a big shift in approach. There is a lot of documentation comparing Spring with Guice, stating which is better, why and how. In general these articles discuss specific points where these two frameworks differ in their approaches and which approach seems better to the author. I…

Read More Read More

Using Docker and a Private Registry with VPN On Windows

Using Docker and a Private Registry with VPN On Windows

Wasn’t that a very specific title? Docker has a very good documentation and reading that alone is enough for most of the straightforward tasks we might want to do. But as always some practical tasks are not straightforward, hence this blog. What we are going to see here today is how to setup docker toolbox on a Windows machine, make it work even when VPN is connected, make it talk to a private, insecure docker registry (that is why VPN)…

Read More Read More

Redis Cluster: Fact Sheet (Not Just Issues)

Redis Cluster: Fact Sheet (Not Just Issues)

Redis and the Redis clustering works very differently from the other data stores and data store clusters. The differences are not always as obvious and may come up as realizations down the line while using Redis, like what happened in our case. We are using a Redis cluster, with which, fortunately, we have not faced many issues so far. But that does not mean we will not and we shall need to be prepared. Recently we were working on getting…

Read More Read More

Better Ways Of Storing Product Knowledge

Better Ways Of Storing Product Knowledge

So, the Brain-Format is not that good. Which is? To answer that, let’s first discuss the ideal attributes of a product knowledge and of the place we would keep the knowledge in, the repository. We shall start with the basic expectations from the documentation itself, and later discuss the expectations from the repository. But before we begin, I would like to make a point – on my previous post I got feedback that I probably should not use the term ‘knowledge’,…

Read More Read More

Cinnamon Crashed, would you like to restart?

Cinnamon Crashed, would you like to restart?

I have been a fan of the Cinnamon DE for years. I like the way it looks and stays out of my way when I am not admiring it and actually doing something useful! But it is somewhat buggy. This is a quick post about the cinnamon crashes, basically a new reason for it to crash. I was faced with a common issue of cinnamon crashes, suggesting me to restart cinnamon, which when clicked yes resulted in another crash and…

Read More Read More