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...
Category: Programming
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...
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...
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...
Reduce boilerplate code using Lombok plugin
One of the things I hate about Java is the ceremony around a functionality. When you want to create a simple Entity class, you need to write the setters, getters and the toString methods....
Spring boot application using Hazelcast cache
Most of the modern application requires throttling for fast response time. The most common method used is to cache the data that is frequently accessed. A caching layer provides this functionality. When we want...
Simple two node Hazelcast cache cluster using TCP IP
Most of the modern application architectures use a caching layer for reducing the response times. The caching layer sits between the data access layer and an API layer in a basic use case. There...
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....
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...
