A overview of uDeploy — a tool for automating application deployments through your environments My gosh! Such a powerful tool that I came across. Originally called Urbancode Deploy, later acquired by IBM and renamed it to uDeploy. It’s a product that could be the end state of a CI /…

I have curated some of the most useful commands that Software Developers / DevOps Engineers often use. I’m not covering the basic ones like — mkdir, rm, cat, cd, etc. Some medium to advanced commands… grep cat sample.txt | grep -i “TIM” -i for case ignore Or grep -i “TIM” sample.txt

Understanding the retry mechanisms in Software Engineering A quick glance of when and where we need retry mechanisms. Retry is usually needed when one service / client talking to another service / system, and the second system is down or unable to respond within the time-frame. Mostly people talk of microservice retry (as a circuit breaker pattern). However, retry is a…

Hmmm… an interesting thought that i had for quiet sometime. After dwelling in the Software architect role for sometime, I have finally realize the utmost use-case for API gateways. As a novice developer, I have designed app modules, that run independently on OpenShift without an API gateway. However, after getting…

In modern era where containers and micro-services are becoming the reality, they also have an overhead of managing the common functionalities like inter service communications spanning between java, node, python / go-lang with diff communication protocols (REST/ gRPCs), mTLS, service discovery, Load-Balancers, etc. …