Actor System Termination on JVM Shutdown
In my day job, I work on a backend system that uses Akka. Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed and resilient message driven systems. I will write an in-depth Akka...
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This week I had to work on tuning a execution engine that is built using Akka. Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed and resilient message driven systems. This post...
View ArticleWhy I dislike meetings?
One aspect of work that I don’t like is meetings. The reason I have hard time at meetings is because they force you to come up with a magical solution to a problem that you don’t understand completely....
View ArticleAyrton Senna Life Documentary
Yesterday, I watched documentary on Ayrton Senna life. Ayrton Senna was Brazilian racing driver who died in an accident while he was leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino...
View ArticleAmazon ECS: The Modern Cluster Manager Part 1
In the last few posts, we looked at various Docker utilities and how XL Deploy can make it easy for enterprises to adopt and use Docker. Docker streamlines software development and testing for teams...
View ArticleBuilding Newsletter to PDF Utility With Puppeteer, Hummus , and Cheerio
Today, I had an idea to build a command-line utility to convert technical newsletter like hackernewsletter to PDF. This will enable me to read newsletter offline while travelling. After spending couple...
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