Elasticsearch

Shrinking indices in Elasticsearch

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The Problem Today, we started receiving the following error from our production Elasticsearch cluster when a new index was about to be created: The error description was obvious that we would breach […]

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AWS

Static Websites with AWS CloudFront and S3

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Why CloudFront & S3 is better for hosting static sites? AWS CloudFront is a CDN that can be used to serve static HTML sites backed by S3 storage. S3 storage is very […]

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Spring Boot

Fixing slow Bcrypt and BasicAuthenticationFilter.doFilter

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I recently investigated and fixed a performance issue with user authentication in our Spring Boot based API service. Our users started complaining about random 504s from our service. Looking at our thread […]

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CI/CD

Jenkinsfile – Cheat sheet, Examples & References

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All of these examples were tested with the ‘Multibranch Pipeline’ type jobs. This may not work with other types of jobs in Jenkins. Validate Jenkinsfile for syntax Navigate to the directory which […]

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PHP

Vagrant Remote Debugging – Xdebug 3 & IntelliJ or PHPStorm

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Debugging is one of the most efficient ways to investigate an unexpected behaviour. This post details how to setup a debugger for a PHP application running in a vagrant machine via your […]

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Productivity

iTerm2 – Clear scrollback automatically on a schedule

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iTerm2 is my default terminal and have been using it for close to 8 years now. It is highly customizable and has API support for hackability. I was using it today to […]

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