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Yesterday, I observed painfully slow debugging in IntelliJ. Every step over or step in took almost 10 seconds to perform. It was a simple Java console application having about some 88k entries in few arrays. I had successfully debugged applications having millions of entries in arrays, lists and maps before without any performance issues. Then I looked at the toString() implementation of the custom object which I was holding in the array public String toString()...

Recently, I setup dual boot of Windows 10 and Kali Linux on different SDD. Technically, its not a dual boot when you install two different OS on different hard disks altogether. However, with dropping prices of SSD’s many people want to install these OS on different hard disks altogether rather than cramming up them in single hard disk with single partition. In my case, UEFI rather than legacy boot. Here is the quick guide to...

Starting Chrome v86, browser cache is going to be partitioned which are going to have interesting consequences. What does it mean? Previously, if you would have loaded a file such as js, css from a CDN from a particular site (lets say Facebook) was cached in the browser cache and available to be used from cache even in a different site (lets say Reddit) But this is changing now, which means that a cache is...

I have been always fascinated by Object oriented programming in JavaScript. Its different from usually OOPs provided by languages such as Java. In this post, we will look at various approaches of achieving Object oriented programming in JavaScript, and their pros and cons Solution 1 : Generate objects using a function function userCreator(name, score) { const newUser = {}; newUser.name = name; newUser.score = score; newUser.increment = function() { newUser.score++; }; return newUser; }; const...

I have been recently playing with Cassandra a lot using Python cassandra client. One issue I saw a lot while timeouts connecting cassandra. The default timeout set in the client library is 5 seconds and it isn’t very intuitive how to increase it. from cassandra.cluster import Cluster from cassandra.cluster import ExecutionProfile from cassandra.auth import PlainTextAuthProvider from cassandra.cluster import EXEC_PROFILE_DEFAULT auth_provider = PlainTextAuthProvider(username='username', password='password') profile = ExecutionProfile(request_timeout=60) cluster = Cluster( ['hostnanme'], auth_provider=auth_provider, execution_profiles={EXEC_PROFILE_DEFAULT: profile}, connect_timeout=120, )...

Its amazing how after working so many years on Javascript, I still get some of the basic concepts wrong. The concept in question is Event loop and Call Stack. To get it refreshed, here is the teaser. What is the output of the below snippet. function printHello() { console.log("Hello"); } function blockFor1Sec() { let arr = []; for (let i = 0; i < 100000; ++i) { arr.push(i); } } setTimeout(printHello, 0); blockFor1Sec(); console.log("Me first!");...

In a complex multi data center Kafka deployments, it is also important to estimate no. of partition each thread will be handling per compute. It is very important parameter to tune. For example, if you are seeing high lag and less CPU usage, it could be because a single thread is handling too much partitions and it might be advisable to increase the no. of threads per compute. Let me take a hypothetical example of...

Multithreading / Concurrency have always been the favorite topic of mine. It gives me a pure joy to extract most out of a machine by loading the CPU with work just like a master exploiting its slaves :) Unfortunately, these days due to distributed nature of computing, most of the time in a machine is spent waiting on I/O (either from database, API’s etc.) and our CPU just sits idle most of the time. Kafka...

I wrote this article Debugging SSL Issues in Java almost 4 years ago. I am writing again a new post on the same topic because I faced the same issue and that article didn’t help me. So I’ll list my new learnings in this post and it will be to the point. Use -Djavax.net.debug=all to command line When using Java program, you can add -Djavax.net.debug=all to the command line to produce debug output of the...

Recently, It got me thinking why do lambda functions require final variables after all. This is not a requirement in Kotlin. For example, this code runs fine in kotlin fun main(args: Array<String>) { var index = 5 val list = mutableListOf<Int>() list.add(5) list.forEach(Consumer { o: Int -> index = 10 println(o * index) }) } Whereas a similar function in Java will give error public static void main(String[] args) { Integer index = 5; List<Integer>...