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Making Sense of Parser Combinators
Initially, I started this post with the protocol I wrote a parser for, but since the post became big and complicated — it was probably worth breaking it down into a smaller piece....
Running your Postgres on a VM— Configuration changes for Resiliency
The purpose of this article is to highlight certain configurations that you might need in case you want to run your own postgresql. There is a slight difference between running it locally and deploying postgres...
Implementing Authentication in Next.js v13 Application with Keycloak(Part — 2)
In the last article, I have discussed about bootrsapping keycloak server along with a basic setup of nextjs with next-auth. In this subsequent article, our focus will shift to configuring next-auth to enhance the user experience...
Implementing Authentication in Next.js v13 Application with Keycloak(Part — 1)
Authentication and authorization are the digital gatekeepers of a web app, playing pivotal roles in ensuring a secure and controlled user experience. One such tool which can help us do this task for...
Streamlining GitHub Actions Testing with Act
In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, efficiency in testing and validating workflows is crucial. “Act” is a powerful tool designed to enhance and streamline the testing process within GitHub Actions. This tool...
A Practical Guide to using Advisory Locks in your Application
Databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL provide various locking mechanisms to control concurrency and to avoid data corruption. We looked at different locks in a previous blog and in that I briefly covered advisory locks. In...
Sahaj & Citizens of The Great Barrier Reef: The Next Chapter of Scale, Complexity & Collaboration for Conservation
The Great Barrier Reef, Australia’s iconic ecological site and the world’s largest marine ecosystem is buckling under the effects of climate change and other factors. According to a report published by government scientists,...
A practical guide to implementing sensitive data encryption using Postgres Pgcrypto
In the previous blog, we discussed the importance of securing PII and sensitive data points captured by enterprises as part of their business apps, analyzed different techniques of securing these data points namely, Encryption...
DOOH programmatic bidding; Scaling to ~15k requests per second with Java — Part 2
In my previous blog, I discussed the business need for a high-performance bidder, the challenges of implementing such a solution, and the technology stack we used (Java and Vert.x). This blog post builds on the...
Typescript for better error handling
There are times when you want to return something other than the normal result of a function call. It’s quite often that we see an exception being thrown in these cases. Exceptions have...
Using Hashicorp Vault with a Micronaut application in K8s
Managing the secrets of your applications is an integral part of taking an application to production. After all, they contain the keys to your kingdom. Many Java frameworks provide out-of-the-box integration with Vault;...
DOOH programmatic bidding: Scaling to ~15K requests per second with Java — Part 1
We work with Talon Outdoor in the out-of-home advertising (OOH) industry that utilizes billboards, transit stations, shopping centres and other similar places to deliver brand messages to a wide audience in public places. As part...
Test Driven Generation — Use AI as a pair for programming.
Written by Amitb and Vighnesh Pathrikar Have you ever found yourself struggling to refactor your code to adhere to SOLID principles or convert user requirements into code? Did TDD or Test-Driven Development feel slow? Have you...
Building secure systems with PII Data Protection Techniques — Part II
A practical guide to implementing sensitive data encryption using Postgres Pgcrypto In the previous blog, we discussed the importance of securing PII and sensitive data points captured by enterprises as part of their business...
Building secure systems with PII Data Protection Techniques — Part I
Today, storing a person’s KYC information, credit card/debit card information, or other similar sensitive details to charge for services availed on a platform is commonplace. This entails storing & dealing with Personally Identifiable...
Provision Multi-Region/Multi-Environment Infrastructure with Terraform
Recently I had a challenging problem to solve, where I need to extend a Data Product that serves clients in a single region to clients in another region. Considering different data Laws in...
All that you need to know about gRPC and Protocol Buffers
Written by Karthik Ruthiravelu Are you building your application with a Microservices architecture? Are there too many microservices in your application and wondering how to make the network calls faster between your inter-service...
Vuetified .Net MVC
This is a follow up to progressively improving .net MVC with Vuejs to show how it can be done. The screen shot below shows how we can use a mix of razor templates and vuejs...
Data science-led, game-changing solutions to disrupt OOH media
Out Of Home advertising has seen rapid growth in the UK. In 2019, OOH advertising revenue rose 7.6% from 2018 to £1.3bn. However, OOH, by and large, has operated as an offline channel...
Progressive ASP .NET MVC
ASP.NET MVC was a pragmatic choice back in the day when building websites. It allowed DI , adding in light JS frameworks and bundle them together. The DI allowed for testing most the code with...
Kafka Basics and Core concepts
Introduction Let’s start by answering the question “What is Kafka?”. Kafka is a Distributed Streaming Platform or a Distributed Commit Log Let’s try to understand those jargons. DistributedKafka works as a cluster of...
Rolling deployment with Terraform on AWS
Terraform is a great tool to automate your infrastructure provisioning. One of the aims of the automation is having an ability to reproduce the deployments and reducing the time required to do the...
AWS Lambda: Long-Running Functions using Tail Recursion
AWS Lambda function has a timeout of 900 seconds which sometimes is not enough to finish tasks that take a longer time. In such cases, recursion is a technique that can be applied...
ECS Integrated Service Discovery
ECS is a service provided by AWS that manages the orchestration and provisioning of Docker containers, ECS allows the application to run in the cloud without having to configure the environment for the...
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