It was the day we were moving. I was observing how the "Packers and Movers" professionals packed our furniture. For example, the King size bed shown below had to be accommodated within a space of about 6-7 inches inside a van. While I kept wondering how they'd manage this, they dismantled the bed. And in went the camel through the needle's eye very neatly. That's when I realized the computing world is not very different from the real world. They dismantled the bed for transportation and then reassembled at the destination. Similarly, in the computing world, we deconstruct objects or

We are crafting a .NET framework based CRM web application. In our application, we have many time-consuming asynchronous processes running in the background. For that, we did azure function orchestration using azure storage queues and tables. Soon, we ran into limitations of complexity; as the application started to grow. With the application, orchestration also started to grow. Because of that, we faced significant challenges such as Error Handling, Unmanageable Code. Thus to overcome those challenges, we started using the Durable Azure Function. This article aims to explain how to achieve Orchestration using a Durable Function, an extension of the Azure

In the current era, it is tough to remain stuck in the same way of doing things. Eventually, we all need to learn, transition and evolve. The same goes for technology as well. That doesn't mean we need to rewrite or redesign what we have developed in the past. Instead, we can start implementing new ways in conjunction with the current one, thus making it interoperable. SwiftUI has been a significant change that came in much after storyboards in Xcode. Ever since the announcement, everyone has been inquisitive about playing with SwiftUI. What is SwiftUI? According to the official Apple

Code reviews are important to deliver quality and well-crafted software. But what if the PR lingers in the review queue waiting for reviewers for an extended period? We faced a similar issue in one of our team where few stories were delayed due to pending reviews from the members. In this article, I would like to share about how we improved the Code and Functional Review process resulting in high quality and happiness. *This process was identified and implemented for one of the projects and every project could have minor customization based on the nature and requirement of the project.

In Web Development, one of the core decisions developers have to make is to decide where to implement rendering in their application. The two most common rendering techniques are Client-Side Rendering: renders web page on the browser Server-Side Rendering: renders web page on the server Let's understand both the techniques in detail. Server Side Rendering VS Client Side Rendering: Before understanding both the techniques, let's get familiar with the following two important Performance Metrics: First Contentful Paint (FCP): This metric measures the time from when the page starts loading to the time when any part of the page's content is

Automation testing is an integral part of any successful product development. We also discussed it in our previous blog on Jenkins. While architecting, developing, and scaling a large USA based SaaS product, having multiple apps (both web & mobile), we automated testing for one of the mobile application using Appium too. In this article, I would like to share a specific challenge we faced with Appium and UiAutomator and how we resolved it. Setup with Appium v1.15.1, Emulator v30.0.5 & UiAutomator 1We installed required software, i.e. Appium, sdkmanager command line tool, Emulator, etc. Appium -

What Traditional goal-setting is to the Performance Management System, Waterfall methodology is to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). Well, these are passé! Today all IT professionals swear by the Agile methodology because it highlights the most important phenomenon of life i.e. ADAPTABILITY TO CHANGE. Agile & Agile Goal Setting 🔁Agile software development is the oxygen to disciplined product development & project management, it revolves around the idea of ‘Iterative development’. Where the focus is on People over Process, Cross-functional team over Specialists, Priority over Plan, Collaboration over Centralization. Ever thought about grabbing the components of Agile and placing

Sometimes dealing with DB processes in a Rails application consume a lot of time. Often there are a bunch of small and simple DB queries that go endless. For example, bulk insertions or bulk updates in tables. Dividing it into various background jobs is an idle solution. In a few scenarios, we can't prefer background jobs e.g. the change you apply, makes the existing data invalid. In this article, we will see how to complete a large set of DB queries under minutes which would otherwise take hours if not optimized. It's a better practice to create a rake

Continuous Integration(CI) and Continuous Deployment(CD) play an essential role, especially when working in a team. In our project, we are following Agile methodology & we do multiple releases during the week. To ensure that the build is generated without any error, CI/CD proves advantageous. "There should be two tasks for a human being to perform to deploy software into a development, test, or production environment: to pick the version and environment and to press the “deploy” button." David Farley For every feature, we create a separate pull request. Every time on commit, CI automatically triggers

To enhance the security of a web application having a user authentication workflow, we use a security method called 2FA. It is also known as Two Factor Authentication(type of Multi-Factor Authentication). In this blog post, we will see how to implement email-based 2FA in ActiveAdmin auth of a Ruby on Rails application. In the email-based 2FA approach, when logging in with an email and password, an OTP will be sent on a registered email address. Upon entering the OTP, it will successfully authenticate and the session will be started. Also, we will see the following additional functionality and customizations