I have been building GraphQL APIs in a Serverless environment for over 3 years now. I can’t even imagine working with RESTful APIs anymore. Combine the power of GraphQL with the scalability of AWS Lambda, and you have got a server that can handle infinite amounts of traffic. In this…

Monorepo is a single repository that holds all code and multiple projects in a single git repository. Monorepo setup is quite attractive to work with because of its flexibility and ability to manage various services and frontends in one single repository. …

I have been working on Java for at least 7 years now. It is still my first language of preference. It is a very old and stable language with a large ecosystem around it. The stability of ecosystem and mature libraries allows us to write production ready application with confidence…

I have recently gotten my AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate certificate. In this post, I will share how I prepared for the exam and the resources that helped me get certified. You should be able to use this post as a high-level guide on where to start and how…

This is part 3 of the series of setting up Laravel with docker post. In part 1, we set up Laravel application using Dockerfile. In part2, we improved on our initial to use docker-compose. Instead of building the container from scratch, we used the official docker containers and put them…

In part 1 of this post, we built a docker image to run Laravel application. In this post we will install the same Laravel application but use docker-compose to do so. Docker compose allows to easily work with multi container applications and prevents from having to type large docker commands…

I often write bash scripts to automate common tasks in my projects. Often the script makes changes that require a reboot. And when the machine finishes rebooting the script needs to resume from where it left. Following script creates a temporary file that we use as a flag in the…

Laravel is one of the most popular PHP framework available right now. In this post we will set up laravel application using Docker. Docker enables independence between software application and the infrastructure by enabling containerization of the platform. Docker is available on most of the operating systems. Download and install…

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer which allows us to create and manage multiple terminal windows. In this post we will configure tmux to have vim style copy and paste. Tmux configuration file is located at ~/.tmux.conf. Lets add following configuration in it. set-window-option -g mode-keys vi bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'v' send-keys…