Blogs

Elastic Load Balancer is a service provided by AWS that is used to distribute incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances and availability zones automatically.  Elastic Load Balancer continuously monitors and detects unhealthy instances, after which it automatically re-routes all the traffic to healthy instances until the unhealthy instances have been restored.  By following this […]

After attending the recent Groovy Grails conference in London recently, I realized how much one can learn from a conference. One gets exposed to some fresh ideas and trends that can really be enriching as a professional. Meeting like minded people and sharing the ideas during the course of the conference is just an added […]

In one of our projects, we came across a requirement where we were required to fetch a file containing important data from S3 in order to use it. Due to Security concerns we were not keen on storing access keys on the EC2 instance. Which basically meant that we could not configure S3 on that […]

You may find many blogs on internet providing step-by-step guidelines to install Oracle 11g on RHEL/Centos 6.x but what’s different here is, I would be discussing the installation of Oracle 11g on AWS EC2 instance through CLI in cases where you do not have access to physical system. I believe the best example to showcase […]

Recently, we’re about to launch a new app but we did not have any idea about the traffic we’ll get. It could have been in hundreds or even thousands. So, we decided to go for Amazon’s Auto Scaling feature. Auto Scaling is the appropriate solution for your app when you are not certain about your […]

The day two at GGX ’13, London continued to be spell binding and fun filled. The sessions, again, were really nice and proved to be valueable and insightful. Here are some of the highlights: Road To Grails 3.0 – By Graeme Rocher The session started with overview of the new features of Grails 2.3 and […]

The day one at GGX 2013 London was really awesome. The atmosphere, the sessions and the speakers really made the day wonderful. We could feel the buzz and energy of the thriving and closely knitted Groovy/Grails community all day long. The show was very well managed by Skills Matter and nicely driven by Peter Ledbrook. Here […]

Java development is often challenging, especially when you need to parse JSON from the command line. In my recent Java development project I had parse JSON from the command line and I explored available options one-by-one to find a close fit solution which can be implemented quickly.  Requirements To parse json from the command line you’ll need a software called […]

In this post I’ll talk about configuring LDAP with your AEM author instance. This is particularly useful within large enterprises where you would like to leverage the existing user profiles which are are typically maintained in LDAP. We are using the following software stack: CQ server – AEM 5.6.1 LDAP server – Apache DS 2.0.M15 […]