Everytime I start a new project in Go, setting up the boilerplat is hassle. Unless you add your configuration loader, DB connections and authentication APIs, middleware, it’s same story everytime. While writing all of these packages is fun and gets you in the flow, it takes time and it’s not as quick as writing a app in FastAPI. The biggest pain point I faced is writing handlers and repeating…
Setting up private Kafka on AWS is quite straight from the console. Which works well if all your services that depends on Kafka are on same VPC. But if you want to push events from a third party hosted application like Rudderstack events to Kafka as destination , which requires you to provide SASL auth details, it becomes a bit complicated. This article aims to document the process. If don’t…
Introduction to Music - Part 1 Last month I tried understanding how music is written and communicated and I have to say, once you get to know the basics of music theory, the appreciation of good music increases exponentially. You can see what the musician just did that made you like it so much, why guitar players make weird finger pattern while playing. This is me just logging my understanding and…
Containers are great, in fact, software components which enable them are some of my favorite projects. But the more you try to know about how they work, the more terminology gets confusing. Docker, Docker Engine, containerd, runC, rkt, cri-o – all describing themselves are container runtime, are they alternatives or complementary components? Based on my understanding while trying to contribute to…
I used to use Atom, it’s MIT licensed, got tons of extensions. I was happy, life was good. Then Microsoft baught Github. Soon enough, people started talking about future of Atom . Since they already have something similar called VSCode, I too started worrying about their long term commitment to Atom. Few of my friends use VSCode and I’d heard and seen some very good things about it. Now that both…
If you have already decided to go with Emacs as your choice of editor, congratulations! This is going to be great. However, the part after this is what’s hard and takes time. You might already be missing some of the very basic functionalities like opening a project file without typing the full path or searching something project-wide that you are very accustomed to. These features usually comes…
I was working on project that was sending a POST request with some data from a web client to a service hosted on a different domain. The service’s logs were saying no support for OPTIONS request, which made sence because it expects a POST request and that’s what it supports. So who is sending this OPTIONS request when I’m tring to sending a POST from my browser client? I checked the network tab in…
I needed to install Mongodb for a project I was working on, as usual I did: $ sudo pacman -S mongodb Now starting the mongodb.service with systemctl was failing without any specific error logs: $ journalctl -u mongodb.service -b -- Logs begin at Thu 2017-06-01 13:13:02 IST, end at Sun 2018-01-07 12:14:08 IST. -- Jan 07 12:05:56 TheBlackPearl systemd[1]: Started High-performance, schema-free…
In “Corporate World” there is a lot of focus on documenting things, which I didn’t used to do much in college. And doing it made me realize it’s importance. While working on any project, now I’m in a habit of writing things down, what worked, what didn’t, everything, which most of the time involve troubleshooting. And looking back last 2-3 year, I’ve spent countless hours on installing and fixing…