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Jan 14, 20243 min read

Looking Back At 2023

Last year, I started my first yearly review, which gave me a good self-realization. I will continue the same this year and in the years to come.

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Aug 28, 20233 min read

Demystifying Sitemaps Your Pathway To Seamless Website Exploration

In the vast world of the internet, navigating a website can sometimes be hard. That's where the sitemap comes into the picture. Sitemap is an essential tool to help visitors navigate your website easily. It also helps search engines to help index your websites efficiently. In this blog post, we will look in detail at sitemaps, their benefits, formats, and a practical example of how to generate them.

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Jun 27, 20232 min read

From Blueprint to Reality: Unleashing the Potential of Creational Patterns

A Comprehensive Exploration of Design Patterns for Crafting Objects with Precision and Elegance

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Jun 02, 20233 min read

Demystifying Creational Patterns: A Roadmap to Effective Object Creation

Harnessing the Power of Design Patterns for Streamlined and Scalable Object Instantiation

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Spring boot application monitoring using custom actuator prometheus metrics

Apr 28, 20232 min read

Custom Actuator Prometheus Metric For Better Spring Boot Application Monitoring

This article describes a elegant way to add custom actuator prometheus metric to spring boot applications. Spring boot, a powerful java based framework to develop micro services web application provides many easy to configure solutions for developers need. Developing a microservices application is complete only when we can monitor these microservices. Spring boot provides Actuator to help monitor these microservices. Actuator uses HTTP endpoints to provide information about the application. Actuator provides lot of metrics like the database connections , thread information, memory information, HTTP client and server requests etc. Below are the 3 steps to add custom actuator prometheus metrics in spring boot

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Apr 17, 20237 min read

JDK variants: From Sun MicroSystems to Oracle and Beyond

Java was originally developed by Sun Microsystems, a technology company that was founded in 1982. Sun Microsystems released the first version of Java in 1995, and it quickly gained popularity as a versatile and platform-independent programming language.

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Kubernetes deployment manifests and Helm chart for Rails application

Apr 04, 20231 min read

Generation of Kubernetes Deploy Manifests For a Rails Application

A very simple and easy way to generate kubernetes deployment manifests for a rails application is through the Helm chart. Helm is simply a package manager for Kubernetes. Helm Chart is a collection of kubernetes resource files like deployments, services and ingress rules also the values that is used to configure these resources.

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Building a linear classification model in Ruby

Jul 24, 20181 min read

A Simple Tensorflow Classification Model In Ruby

The main objective of this blog is to build a simple linear classification model in ruby using Tensorflow architecture. The main tensorflow compenents required to build and test the model are Operation, Placeholder, Variable and Session. These components are written as ruby classes. Lets start with the Operation class.

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Jul 04, 20181 min read

Set Up Google Pub Sub in Vert-x3

Here are the quick steps to set up Google Pub Sub in vert-x3

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Dec 01, 20161 min read

Mutually Exclusive Alias Method And Prepend

Module#alias_method was one of the earliest solution to overwrite a method in ruby. With an alias method in place you can redefine a method to anything you want and call the old method using the alias_method.

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