SLF4J vs LOG4J
“Do I go for SLF4j or LOG4j or both?” Classic question from my team. SLF4j has been around for sometime now and has been adopted heavily
A Conceptual ‘Performance Mode’ for Web Applications
What is it? Dedicated mode to help Web Applications weather peak or unexpected traffic. Why do we need it? Often, performance heavy or resource intensive
Pattern Matching in Scala
You must have used switch cases many times in your Java code. However, the case entry can only be integer or any scalar type. What
Java String Concatenation
Have you been told many times, don’t use + operator to concatenate Strings? We know that it is not good for performance. How do you really
How we automated settings on a real iPhone using Appium
Anyone associated with iOS automation on real apple devices would know the challenges it comes with. Appium is a leading automation framework, however one of
Git Cherry Pick
Some of my team members asked me how to merge only specific commits from a branch into the current branch. The reason you’d want to do this
Building the Digital Supply Chain and Production Line
Let’s begin with a definition of DevOps coming from ITIL background. “DevOps is just ITIL with 90% of stuff moved to ‘Standard Change’ because we
Performance Testing in Agile World!
In the era of hyper-connected world everybody want things to be done efficiently and effectively. Agile methodology came into existence to solve few of the time
Minification of JS/CSS
Minification is a process of compressing the source code, without changing it’s functionality. This technique is useful sometimes, specially in the case of a web
New Era Microservices Architecture
Microservice architecture, or simply microservices, is a distinctive method of developing software systems that have grown in popularity in recent years. In fact, for many developers
Need for Speed: Practices to Improve Software Quality
Software quality is always a fascinating and daunting task to achieve. Right from top management to test engineers, all talk about quality goals to be
Connected world, Cloud and Analytics
When we talk about connected things, lot of development is going on across all industry segments. We witnessed quite a few product launch announcements last