I was playing around with Google Kubernetes Engine few days back. I wanted to try out GKE autopilot cluster setup. Autopilot mode is basically a fully managed kind of a setup. With standard mode, we get fully managed control plane. But we need to plan for the capacity of data plane nodes & create, manage … Read more
Recently I moved this WordPress blog to Google Cloud. I used WordPress by Bitnami one click installation to setup a new WordPress blog. And then I migrated existing blog data to the new one. I just had to change DNS A record to point to the new IP address. And WordPress migration happened without any … Read more
Recently we faced this issue. We have MediBuddy as our medical insurance portal. We submitted a claim via the website https://portal.medibuddy.in/Home.aspx. MediBuddy team got back to us via email & asked for few more documents. There was a link in the email https://me.mediassist.in/ to submit documents online for that claim. But we couldn’t find any … Read more
Nowadays we frequently submit soft copies of documents online. Most of the documentation or verification process for any kind of enrollment has become digital. One thing I noticed is that people often ask me to submit scanned copies of documents. I don’t have a physical scanner in my home. It doesn’t make sense to me … Read more
Let me explain the problem first. We have a Java class under test. We are using Junit with Mockito framework to write the unit test cases.We have annotated our test class with @InjectMocks annotation as below: @InjectMocks private TestClass testClass; @Mock private Dependency1 dependency1; @Mock private Dependency2 dependency2; That should inject mocked dependencies to the … Read more
I stopped using Putty as my SSH client when I moved to Windows 10 from Windows 7. I have started using OpenSSH client that comes with Windows 10 & I am pretty happy with it. Sometimes we need to add our private key to SSH-agent for repeated use. And sometimes we need to use connection … Read more
This question has been answered online in multiple places. I want to highlight few challenges faced while running pip command with multiple versions of Python installed in the operating system & my preferred way of doing it.I have an old machine with Ubuntu 16.04. By default Ubuntu 16 has Python 2.7 and Python 3.5. So … Read more
JWK is a JSON that represents a cryptographic key. PyJWT is a pretty popular Python library to generate, verify JWT token. But one drawback is that it doesn’t support JWK format, at least it is not properly documented. Suppose we have an RSA private key, but it is given in JWK format. Our objective is … Read more
Generating all possible combinations of balanced parentheses is a common interview problem & is found in websites like LeetCode & GeeksForGeeks.Given n pairs of parentheses, write a function to generate all combinations of well-formed parentheses. We are using backtracking to solve this problem. There are two cases where we can proceed to the next recursive … Read more
I am using GeneratePress as my WordPress theme. I wanted to remove the previous & next links section that is shown at the end of each blog post. It just looked a bit cluttered to me & I wanted to keep my post page as clean as possible. But there is no ready-made way to … Read more