Blogs

The popular Continuous Integration tool ‘Jenkins’ comes with multiple plugins which increase the functionality of Jenkins many folds and helps DevOps achieve automation in many ways. One of the most important plugins it support is Publish Over SSH, which helps to transfer artifacts to any SSH server and/or execute commands over SSH session. One of the […]

Monitoring servers are very important for every server administrator. There are some command line tools available to monitor server resource usages like top, vmstat, etc. Why ? SAR or sar provides almost all the resource usages reports which we get from many different tools at one place but more importantly is could keep a record of the data which […]

“Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for AngularJS applications. Protractor is to run one or multiple tests against your application running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would.” It is easier to check on GUI based system because it launches a browser automatically during the test. But what about non-GUI? For […]

Recently, we got a requirement where Grails Development team needs to have a one-click interface to run units test cases for their Grails application and send the results to SonarQube. SonarQube is a web-based application which is used for centralized management of code quality. We decided to integrate it with Jenkins to provide a one click solution. […]

So you have spent some odd years of your software development career and now you know many of those RDBMS implementations in and out. In fact, you also already know that RDBMS is not the only enterprise storage and due to frequent scalability issues you encountered, someday you found about Big Data tools. Chances are […]

Refer this blog to get a basic understanding of using self-signed SSL certificates on your Apache server. Also, the above link will help you in generating a private key and a CSR (Certificate Signing Request), which contains information about your country, locality, company, your public key, etc.; for your server. For commercial SSL certificates firstly a […]

One security challenge we face these days is how to prevent our web servers from DDOS attacks. This blog illustrates how we can automatically block unwanted traffic based on request rate by using AWS WAF and Lambda. This setup automatically detects traffic based on request rate, and then updates AWS WAF configurations to block subsequent […]

D3 (Data-Driven Documents) is a JavaScript library to create custom visualizations. It combines powerful visualization and interaction techniques with a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation, giving you the full capabilities of modern browsers and the freedom to design the right visual interface for your data. D3.js graphs are for those who want to create complex, customized graphs. […]

Jenkins is a widely used CI tool which helps DevOps teams in automating the multiple tasks. The use of Jenkins has widely increased over a period of time due to a rich set of functionalities which it provides in the form of plugins. Jenkins has plugins for automating almost everything at the infrastructure level. In […]

Protractor is an end-to-end automation testing framework tool. To test Angular web page on a mobile device, we have to use the Appium with Protractor to perform our E2E testing. Both Appium and Protractor are open-source automation testing tool. Appium provides a bridge between a system and a mobile device. It supports three types of […]

As we all know, Agile Development is far different from the traditional development methods majorly because of its flexibility to adapt frequently changing requirements. In Agile, the test subject is continuously refined over the various sprints/iterations, and, therefore, continuous automation has become a necessity. Although continuous test automation is a mammoth task, it is nearly […]

Let’s discuss about Visual Design today. However before proceeding to Visual Design, let us analyze what is design and how people from different arena/profession see it. In today’s life everything is design be it a car, house, pen, computer or whatever you name. So how we ensure the design is usable ? Same applies for […]