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 am using LocalStack to emulate AWS services in my local machine. I believe you already know what LocalStack is. And that’s why you are reading this post. Still let me share a one-liner on how LocalStack works. It will help us understand the problem.LocalStack runs a single docker container & the application running inside … 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
I am no SEO expert. But what I read online, I understood that having https connection for your website helps. Google prefers content over secured connection than similar content with normal http connection. I was checking if there is an option to get a free SSL certificate & install it for this domain using Blogger. … Read more
Nowadays almost all email services require your phone number to verify identity & then only you can sign up. It is the case with Gmail or Yahoo Mail. Most of the time we are fine with sharing our phone number with email service providers. But sometimes, we may have a case where we want to … Read more