Overall I like WordPress Twenty Twenty-One theme. But I have couple of issues with the theme. I wanted to have the option of a sidebar. It gives more flexibility. And I thought the container width is too narrow & content can be displayed on a bigger width. But these options are not customizable by default. … Read more
Who doesn’t like to download software or computer games for free! If we get something free for which we need to generally pay, that is a plus, especially for those who love to play around with new softwares. But how do you download fully licensed software for free? You can download the trial version with … Read more
I loved Death Rally. Those of you who don’t know what I am talking about, it is a top-down racing game from the 90s developed by Remedy Entertainment. Anyways, if you are here & reading through the post, then I assume you already know what I am talking about & how good the game was. … Read more
If you are looking for some software to download subtitles of YouTube videos for free, you can check out DownSub. It doesn’t require any additional software to be installed in your machine which is a good thing. Installing third party software from unverified source can compromise your security after all. DownSub supports most of the … Read more
Sometimes we might feel the need to install MySQL client inside a Docker container which is running our application server. We might have faced some MySQL error while running some database query or there is some issue while connecting to MySQL server from the Docker container. At that time if we can install MySQL client … Read more
Neave Pac-Man was my favourite. This flash based version of classic Pac-Man game had a good graphics, seamless while operating using keyboard & worked like a charm. But due to copyright issues, it was removed for downloading. The flash exe file is not available for download anymore. Recently I just saw that Neave Pacman is … Read more
A message can be requeued when consumer fails to process a message. It comes in handy when the message failed due a temporary glitch & can be processed successfully in next attempt or by a different consumer instance. The option whether to requeue or not can be controlled by requeue parameter while doing negative acknowledgement (basic.nack … Read more
We know about CAP theorem for distributed system. Consistency: Any node which is not down must return the latest write when data is read from it. Availability: Any node which is not down must return non-error response for a read. Data might not be the most recent. Partition Tolerance: In case of network breakdown among … Read more
I have LocalStack in my local machine for resolving AWS service dependencies. I am trying to test my application which connects to the LocalStack SQS. I have deployed my application as a docker container. The problem is when I am accessing SQS getQueueUrl from my application container, it is giving me localhost as AWS endpoint. … Read more
For doing dev testing of my application, I use LocalStack. It is really helpful in creating AWS cloud stack locally. That cuts cost for local development & testing. Also it is easier for developers to remove any DevOps dependency for credentials & IAM accounts while developing. Once LocalStack is successfully installed, we can access AWS … Read more