AWSTechnology

Docker Swarm on AWS

This blog post refers to a newly established concept in Docker Technology i.e. Docker Swarm. The Swarm can be used for clustering of more than one Docker engines. Using Swarm, Docker containers can be launched to any node in the cluster. It comprises of 2 logics based on which containers can be launched and managed […]

AWSDevOps

Automated Docker Deployment using Jenkins

Building a Docker image from a Dockerfile, creating a latest tag and pushing it on DockerHub are equivalent to executing three different commands manually. This could be automated by creating a bash script. Well, that was not a big deal until I had a requirement where I needed to perform above actions and additional task […]

Navjot Singh
Navjot Singh
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GrailsTechnology

Generating Grails static resource link manually

In case you are using Grails resources plugin and at some point you need to generate the static resource link in some service or ordinary ‘src’ class – following is a quick code that can help you getting the resources link/URL (by using resources tag lib only). The good part is that it’s not a […]

Salil Kumar
Salil Kumar
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AWSGrails

Enable Grails application to serve resources through CDN

In a recent project we were required to move our static content files to some CDN because servers were getting millions of hits every hour and many of the resources on the main page were static (like JS/CSS/etc). I hope most of the people understand CDN already. So, I’m not covering any information on CDN […]

Salil Kumar
Salil Kumar
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AWSTechnology

AWS Memcached Auto-scaling

Last week, I got into a situation where I had to scale the application to store unpredictable user sessions in Memcached. The vertical scaling could be extended up to a limit but to meet the application requirements, I had to go with horizontal scaling. AWS does not provide any service to autoscale Memcached nodes according to […]

Rajdeep Singh
Rajdeep Singh
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Automation TestingMobility

Mobile App Automation Testing Using Appium

What is Mobile Automation Testing? Mobile Automated testing provides a mechanism to consistently repeat a test procedure and verify application results. It can be effective both for regression testing as well during development. Testing mobile applications is different and more complex than testing traditional desktop and web applications. Prerequisites for Mobile Automation Testing on Windows […]

Application Security

Experience at X0RC0NF, 2015 – A security conference

Being a technology focused company, TO THE NEW has always made its presence felt in major conferences around the world. This time, it was X0RC0NF in Cochin, India. I was invited to present my talk there and attend the conference as a speaker. The topic of my talk was “Anatomizing online payment systems: hack to […]

Application SecurityTechnology

An essence of Application Security in Financial Sector

Digital innovation has been evolving and growing in the financial space with time. It is no secret that the financial companies today see digital presence as a key component to their company’s success. Customers can now manage their finances from anywhere and at anytime using these digital offerings. But, this raises a serious issue. With […]

Nikhit Kumar
Nikhit Kumar
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Application SecurityTechnology

An essence of Application Security in E-commerce

Hackers and cyber criminals identify E-commerce sites as a source of information, such as credit cards and other PII (Personally identifiable information). To protect customers, it’s necessary to know how to protect the application and the sensitive customer data it has. All this involves user’s trust and assurance on the brand and yes, it is at […]

Ankit Giri
Ankit Giri
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