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AWSDevOpsTechnology

Leveraging AWS Read Replica for minimal downtime

It is really a very big problem to apply indexing or executing any query on a table containing millions of records. There is a large probability of query taking locks on the table. A few people just wait for the query to execute while some just end up killing important background queries. Both the above-mentioned […]

Java/JVMTechnology

#Hazelcast : Enhance throughput of Java apps performance by optimization of object deserialization and distributed query

Hazelcast is a popular solution for In-Memory Data Grid that is often used with Databases in order to improve performance of applications, to distribute data across servers, clusters and geographies and to manage very large data sets. Here’s a quick reference to integrate hazelcast with grails  . Since Hazelcast is a distributed system, we need to put serialized […]

Bijoy Paul
Bijoy Paul
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Technology

Create your custom Icon Fonts with Icomoon

In the modern web, everybody wants their site should response quick and fast. This blog is not related to any web performances, but it will talk one key factor of web performance which is using CSS icon fonts instead of images. Nowadays using icon fonts is very popular and useful. The purpose of creating a […]

AWSTechnology

AWS Auto-scaling Lifecycle Hooks

The lifecycle hooks are the great feature of auto scaling, it helps to control instance launch and termination state within auto-scaling group. I got to know about this hidden feature when I was looking for a solution where I had to perform some automated tasks on the instance before adding/removing it from auto-scaling group. I was […]

Rajdeep Singh
Rajdeep Singh
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GrailsTechnology

Intercept Grails Service class method calls

I was trying to intercept method calls of a Grails Service class for a little while. Adding interceptors to Controllers is really easy and I wanted to intercept calls to one of the methods in a Service class in a similar fashion. But adding interceptors to Grails Service Classes is not as straightforward as for […]

AndroidiOSMobility

WordPress to JSON Api

There are many websites which are currently running on wordpress. What if those websites need there data to use for mobile application. It is very tedious task to use the wordpress data for REST APIs. As a solution to this problem there is good plugin called WordPress REST Api plugin. It makes the task of […]

Digital Analytics

How Real Life Events Correlate with Digital Buzz: A Case Study on Haze

The 2015 South-East Asian (SEA) haze has become an air pollution crisis of epic proportions. It has originated from Indonesian forest fires, and has affected several nations in the SEA region. The haze situation has especially worsened in Singapore and Malaysia, as schools were closed and major sporting events, such as the Standard Chartered KL […]

Java/JVM

Issues while Migrating from Java6 to Java8 in AEM 6.1

Recently while working on AEM 6.1, I had to move from Java 6 to Java 8. Simply changing the Java version in POM led to some issues with OSGi services. Specifically, those services that were using @Reference annotation were not getting active and remained in “satistied” state. Here are all the steps I followed firstly to change Java version […]

Technology

How to see GUI on Remote (Linux) Machines?

It rarely happens that we need to see GUI for the Linux based remote servers. But what if you need to see that. The purpose of this post is to walk you through the software/steps required to fulfill this requirement. Here is how we can enable the GUI First of all we have to install […]

Manual TestingMobilityTechnology

Mobile Testing Techniques

  Introduction: Due to growth of mobile computing platform value of mobile application for most of the companies has been increased. Along with the development of mobile application, Mobile Testing is also a biggest challenge. There are number of factors which need to be address which are different from web application testing. Here are few […]

Android

Bug Targets in Android Marshmallow (6.0)

Hi fellow readers, I hope you enjoy reading blogs at TO THE NEW Digital. With newer updates pouring into Mobile OS platforms (viz Android/iOS/Windows), the scenarios for testing also takes a shift. We at TO THE NEW brainstorm test designs around these changes made. In this blog we will focus on understanding one key change made in […]

Vikas Sharma
Vikas Sharma
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AndroidMobility

Introduction to Android Auto

Android Auto was announced on June 25, 2014, at Google I/O 2014. The Android Auto mobile app was released on March 19, 2015. It is a part of the Open Automotive Alliance(OAA), which was announced on January 6, 2014, and is a joint effort with 28 automobile manufacturers and mobile tech supplier Nvidia. Hyundai became […]