Why an avid dark mode enthusiast stopped using dark mode?
I used to be a die-hard enthusiast of dark mode screens and designs. I loved the elegance and the simplicity they provided and always wanted to have more of it on all the apps...
Author: microideation
Setup a local development proxy using Nginx handling CORs
If you are a front-end developer, you must be familiar with the pain of connecting to the API when working on your development machine. You may be running a local npm server and the...
Git Tutorial – Part 1: Simple git commands explained with example workflow.
Git is a well-known source code versioning system widely used by software organizations. But many of the developers who have not yet worked with a team could be unaware of how this works and...
Nginx proxy with AWS ELB: Critical handling for intermittent gateway timeout ( 499 or 502 )
This post describes important handling that needs to be put in the Nginx to avoid getting intermittent gateway timeouts during a proxy pass to an AWS ELB. Please read on to see the issue...
MongoDB – Java Spring: Part 1 ( Setup, Compass, Basic Queries)
MongoDB is one of the leading and widely used distributed No-SQL document storage engine. This is evident from the number of organizations using the service and the support available online. MongoDB stores the data...
Extending battery life in your developer laptop
Nowadays, laptops are the number one choice for the developers and very few uses desktops at home or at the office. There is no doubt that they provide the mobility and the flexibility that...
Efficiently batch processing records from large table in Spring using peeking
It’s not uncommon for a production system to have a table with multi-million records and there would be a requirement for the application to process the records individually for a batch job. Now there are...
RabbitMQ configuration for HA ( Queue Mirroring )
RabbitMQ is one of the most commonly used messaging brokers. The setup is fairly straightforward and there is abundant support available for different client languages and libraries. We have many RabbitMQ clusters deployed in...
Configuring AWS ECR as docker registry in Centos server
Docker is a widely popular container system and most of the modern systems use Docker for scalability and maintainability. One of the main points of consideration while moving to docker is the registry. Registry...
Linux commands cheatsheet for every developer
The tasks of the developers were previously confined to coding, testing and pushing of code to the repository. A developer was never bothered about where the application was run and how the environment or...
