Category Archives: programming

The right way to implement producer consumer pattern in Java

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Siddharth Jain

The producer consumer pattern can be “easily” implemented in Java using one of the BlockingQueue classes. The producer puts work into the queue and consumer takes work from the queue. We start two separate threads for the producer and consumer. … Continue reading →

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Using WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Siddharth Jain

I keep forgetting it so it deserves a post of its own. To access the Ubuntu directory from Windows Explorer type: Also run: to create a directory on c:\ from where you can access the WSL filesystem refer this. How … Continue reading →

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How to process data in Google BigQuery?

Posted on July 4, 2022 by Siddharth Jain

In this post we discuss some of the ways the data in BigQuery can be processed. First, for those unfamiliar with it, what is BigQuery? BigQuery is Google’s OLAP (Online Analytics Processing) database. In my previous company, we used Hive … Continue reading →

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StackOverflow Developer Survey 2022

Posted on June 23, 2022 by Siddharth Jain

The SO Developer Survey for 2022 is out. Some things that struck me as odd: I just can’t believe that people hate MATLAB. I love it. Similarly I was surprised to find out that R and PHP are dreaded languages. … Continue reading →

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Query Google BiqQuery from a Scala console app

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Siddharth Jain

Objective How can we query Google BigQuery from a Scala console app? Step 1 – Create project on Google CLoud, enable billing, Install Google Cloud SDK, initialize and authenticate Refer to online documentation for how to do all this. You … Continue reading →

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AsciiDoctor: Inspecting Environment settings of Ruby

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Siddharth Jain

Within the docker-asciidoctor container you can see Ruby settings like so

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Installing Bash4

Posted on December 8, 2018 by Siddharth Jain

A new macbook pro comes installed with bash version 3. I needed to install bash 4 to be able to use the bash debug vs code extension. To do this run brew install bash once its done you will need … Continue reading →

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Debugging java out of memory exception

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Siddharth Jain

Read http://stackoverflow.com/a/35963059/147530 to understand the nuances esp. if you are getting this error: Real world example: Needed to debug a service that would cause an OOM exception after running for a while. Wrote following script to periodically make requests to the … Continue reading →

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Linux & Bash Tips

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Siddharth Jain

Normally by itself the terminal app displays bash in the tab title and its not very useful if you have a large number of tabs open and want to know e.g., what is the pwd in each of the tabs. … Continue reading →

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