Monthly Archives: May 2021

Dealing with annoying Azure Devops Permissions

Posted on May 28, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

Like many other of its products Azure Devops is over-engineered and a pain to use. Unfortunately you might have to use it in your organization. One of the biggest problems I have run into with it is when it will … Continue reading →

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Sarita – school teacher

Posted on May 28, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

😀😀Sarita was a very good teacher in the school …*Sarita*: – Tell me where is the Taj Mahal …. 🕌*Students*:  Agra …  *Sarita* : Wrong … It’s in Bengaluru…The students all got into thinking .. and were confused😮😲The students told … Continue reading →

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Swoole Notes

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

First of all you have to understand: the difference between a coroutine and a thread, and the difference between concurrency and parallelism The TL;DR is that threads are managed by the OS whereas coroutines are managed by the language. OS does … Continue reading →

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A comparison of Swoole and ReactPHP

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

I am a newcomer to PHP. I never used it in my career but recently we developed some very successful projects using WordPress and it was WordPress that provided an entry point into the PHP world for me. I found … Continue reading →

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Common programming mistakes

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

Probably the most common and embarrassing programming mistake: Not testing the code in the catch block. And when it gets executed in production it throws and crashes the application.

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docker stop does not send SIGTERM to node app

Posted on May 14, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

One of the things they mention in Express docs is to add support for graceful shutdown of your application: The process manager you’re using will first send a SIGTERM signal to the application to notify it that it will be killed. Once … Continue reading →

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Why I hate Docker?

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Siddharth Jain

docker build hangs this happens time to time on WSL2 (I think any unhandled exception causes the docker engine to stop running). Open the docker desktop and at the very bottom check if Docker Engine is running. If its not … Continue reading →

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