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The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga - A Review
The White Tiger will leave you breathless, revolted, and disgusted. It'll make you cynical, and a pessimist. It'll anger you, sadden you, and make you despair.
The Bhagavad Gita for Millennials, by Bibek Debroy - A Review
The book's easy explaining style, coupled with scientific temper by which the author goes about elaborating without sounding preachy, makes it a must read starter text for anyone who wants to know about The Bhagavad Gita.
Mastering ExecutorService Shutdown: Tracking ThreadPool Termination
How do you know if all the tasks in ExecutorService have completed?
Devi for Millennials, by Bibek Debroy - A Review
I went into reading this book with high expectations, and I was...
SSH Tunnelling with Java
What to do when you have no local access to a remote resource
Handling limited sudo access through Ansible
Especially useful if you don't have root access or access to the sudoers file
Stupid Patterns
Stupid patterns on the web (and how to prevent your bank account from getting hacked)
About
Darshit Patel - Tech Lead at Gupshup, Java/Spring Boot engineer, ACM volunteer. Sharing learnings on backend technologies and distributed systems. 9+ years of experience.
Dynamic Enums
Enable Enums to load data from a Database
The Java Constants Interface Anti-Pattern
Should you use Interfaces for defining constant values?
How to change Java Version/JAVA_HOME for Ant?
Learn how to change the Java version for Ant builds using the ~/.antrc file on Unix systems. Step-by-step guide for switching JAVA_HOME per-project.
How To Implement Two Way SSL With Nginx
Complete step-by-step guide to implementing two-way SSL (mutual TLS / mTLS) with Nginx. Includes certificate generation, server configuration, and Postman testing.
How to achieve a 50% reduction in Redis memory usage
How we reduced Redis memory usage by 50% using MessagePack serialization and Snappy compression in a Spring Boot application with Jackson and Lettuce.
Using IntelliJ IDEA Live Templates
Boost your Java development productivity by creating custom Live Templates in IntelliJ IDEA. Learn how to automate repetitive code patterns with just a few keystrokes.
The Sabarimala Verdict: Right, or Wrong?
For people who are unaware of the case, the Sabarimala Temple is an annual pilgrimage site to a lot of Indians which traditionally has the practice of not allowing entry to the women pilgrims of the ages between 10-50 years inside the temple premises.
Moral Dilemmas: Insights from Indian Epics, by B. K. Matilal [Excerpt]
I was listening to a podcast episode yesterday from the awesome philosophy series History Of Philosophy In India titled Grand Illusion: Dharma and Deception in the Mahabharata , and it had a pretty interesting moral dilemma which I put forth here in my words:
Summary: The History of Rome by Mike Duncan: Episode 1-4
Hello guys, I’ve been listening to a history podcast once again, and I hope to summarise what I have learned, at the same time providing you with a narrative so you need not scourge a lot of Wikipedia pages if you are interested in learning more about it.
Review: Hardcore History - The Destroyer of Worlds by Dan Carlin
Hey guys, I’m here with a review about a podcast I listened to recently! This one is a great show called Hardcore History. What happens if human beings can’t handle the power of their own weaponry? This show examines the dangerous early years of the Nuclear Age and humankind’s efforts to avoid self-destruction at the hands of its own creation.
It's (probably) all about money, Honey.
This is my last year of my Engineering studies. You probably might be expecting a teary-eyed farewell blog post (which I could definitely write, but not now). This academic year wasn’t like the one I was hoping for. Partly because it’s the placement season in all the colleges, and partly because my life was messed up by my university.
My Newfound Love for Podcasts
A couple of months ago, a friend of mine mentioned making an App for the discovery of Podcasts. I knew the concept of podcasts, but I argued that these weren’t for the Indian audiences, the foremost reason being people would need to specially allocate time for listening to the podcasts. Who’s got the time?
When relatives come calling, you go bawling
The society is a weird entity. Sometimes a man needs a society for his well being, and the other times he needs the society for something to blame for. The weirdest of the weird parts of the society are your relatives. Some are really good – keeping to their own, while some others, not quite much so. It’s the latter which are more “concerned” about us and our well-being -…
ACM - An Unforgettable Experience
This guest post was written by Amrita Nair . What an awesome year it was! A year full of responsibilities, new learning experiences and a welcome change. ACM is the best thing that ever happened to me. A great platform, for which I will always have immense love and respect.
The year of the ACM Student Chapter
Phew! My last blog post was a year ago, on 4th March, 2014. Which shows it’s been a hell of an year for me. These past months, I’ve been thoroughly (and happily) busy with the ACM Student Chapter. Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, as it is popularly known is
What Reality TV usually is.
Last weekend, I had the fortune of visiting my parents at home. Usually this involves unmeasurable happiness on our parts. A couple of holidays every month doing no study; I’d bet you’re game for it. It’s like the movie Gravity - weightlessness and a little bit of pampering on their part.
Why You should stop using Facebook, WhatsApp and other crap.
Lets face it, we’ve all been there before. Going through the pile of rubbish that your ’friends’ shared whom you don’t even care about. Photographs asking you to like them or you are doomed. Filtering through all of the shit, just because you could see the photo of your crush who doesn’t even know you. That embarrassing picture you posted online; when you were out of your mind and regret it now.…
Parliament passes resolution recognizing customer care executives as a separate Race
Delhi : The Winter session of the Parliament commenced this Thursday. We media channels, were expecting the usual non-functioning and house disruptions in the assembly. But we were in for a shock because after the promised Telangana Bill was tabled and debated, the government somehow passed a Privileged Motion recognizing Customer Care Executives as a separate Race. The other bills such as the…
How to Create an Enemy - By Sam Keen
I don’t usually read poems but I came across this gem by Sam Keen. Here it goes. Start with an empty canvas Sketch in broad outline the forms of men, women, and children.
Mind your language!
India is a country with 22 official languages, 1652 languages and dialects in total with over 216 languages with more than 10,000 native speakers. Of them, Hindi is the most spoken in India.
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani: Review?
This is my 3rd foray into the world of blogging. My first two blogs were as good as non-existent. So I was searching once again for a topic to write on. Luckily I happened to watch this movie,YJHD,and being the natural critic that I am,I jumped on it.