Enable dark mode for Slack
We use Slack as our business collaboration / IM tool and as such I have to spend a lot of time chatting with my colleagues both in direct chats as well as through channels....
Author: microideation
Fixing the font rendering issue in IntelliJ
IntelliJ is undoubtedly one of the best IDEs that you could ever find. It has tons of features especially for Java and EE development. The spring development support provided by IntelliJ is unmatched and...
Smart virtualbox configuration with static IP and DHCP for internet
As a developer, I am required to work on different projects and each of them has got their own requirements for the environment and dependencies. One may require a combination of RabbitMQ and MySQL...
Securing Kibana with basic auth using nginx as reverse proxy
We heavily use ELK and especially Kibana for our dashboard requirements. Kibana is not just used for log monitoring, we use custom dashboards using elasticsearch indexes. Kibana by default does not have security enabled and...
Nginx proxy based IP whitelisting for your underlying service
Nginx is one of the most sought-after webservers when intended for reverse proxy or static content serving. Let’s see how we can use nginx to restrict IP addresses that can access underlying services when nginx...
Development system setup based on Ubuntu and Gnome
Each developer spends a lot of time with his / her system. It is very important to have the system configured in the most intuitive manner for easing the daily tasks. In this post,...
Adding nested fields ( objects in array ) query support to Kibana using KNQL plugin
We extensively use ELK ( Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana ) for our logging requirements as well as for dashboards. One of the major constraints we have faced while using Kibana was the limitation of...
Logback configuration with log rotation and retention based on active spring boot profile
Logging is an important aspect of a production application. They are a single source of truth when you require an issue to be debugged or an event to be traced once your application has...
Preparing spring boot application for production
Spring boot is an awesome library that allows swift spring web application development and deployment. We heavily use start.spring.io for generating the skeleton project with a basic setup and then use the required dependencies....
Left swipe for Google Now on Nova launcher
I am a big fan of Nova Launcher and have been using it for quite some time. I am also a fan of Google Now which is very useful for getting the information that...
