Excel-ification !!!
You read it right. Excel-ification !. Don’t bother to search in the internet. Its not there anywhere. Its a name given to a phase of life I am going through now. But I can bet...
Author: microideation
Setting up Kubernetes cluster for container orchestration
I have started playing around with docker containers lately and was looking for a solution for container orchestration. I stumbled upon Kubernetes and started exploring it and I must say that it’s surely worth a...
Setting up ELK Stack for near real-time log monitoring in AWS
ELK is a software stack that can help us combine all the logs from different systems and then analyze , monitor and evaluate in a single dashboard. The ‘ELK’ is an acronym made with the...
Secure copy files ( SCP ) between two EC2 instances in AWS
We are extensively using the Amazon EC2 instances for hosting our applications and require setup of the communication between two of more instances for file copy or service discovery. In this post, I am...
IntelliJ IDE Pro Tips and useful features
I have been a developer from last 10 years and have used a wide variety of IDEs ranging from Notepad ( Yes, I wrote my first java program in notepad !! ) to Netbeans. But...
Java spring auto deployment to Tomcat 8 using Jenkins 2.0 in AWS cloud
Continuous Integration ( CI ) is a step forward in the software development life cycle targeted for faster delivery and early detection of issues. CI requires integration of the code to main repository at least...
Installing Java 1.8 and Tomcat 8 in Centos 7
I have been setting up our servers in Amazon AWS and found that installing JDK is not as straightforward as I thought it would be 🙂 I had to do some googling before I...
Analyzing & monitoring application logs using ELK stack
One of major issues faced by modern day enterprise applications are the management and monitoring of application logs. During the phase of development, the application logging is overlooked as a rather unimportant part. But once...
Accelerating the performance of an aging laptop
The basis for this article stemmed from the notion of getting a mac book for myself majorly due to its unmatched performance ( looks aside !! ). I was obsessed by the way it did...
Additional hard disk in laptop CD-Drive ( Ultrabay)
I recently did an upgrade to my Thinkpad T420 (Read the post ) . During the upgrade , I replaced my HDD for a SSD. The performance had improved drastically and I am completely...
