Redis Cache - Potential Chernobyl in your Architecture
Redis cache, so fast, so easy to setup but a potential Chernobyl, lying within your system.
70 posts in category "tips-and-tricks"
Automating the Deployment and Scheduled Execution of an R script on a VPS using Laravel Forge
I love data, its in my blood, I love analysing, cleaning it and preparing it for others to use, still have to get to the last mile to displaying and visualizing it but that is a story for another day
Copying files from Mac to Android- 2023 Edition
I just got a new phone, and I needed to copy some files over from my old phone SD card onto my new phone’s self storage. There did not seem an easy way so I decided to do it old the fashioned way
Deploying a Tighten Jigsaw static site to a VPS using Laravel Forge
I have ran into an interesting challenge for a documentation site that I am working on. The code repository is private on GitHub until it is ready to be made public, however needs to be be deployed publicly
Geek Tools - My Mouse Journey
I have been a predominatly mouse user all my life, at the beginning there was no choice as all we had were desktops, even if I was able to learn to use vi on Unix/Linux terminals. However as laptops have become cheaper and more capable, they have become primary computing devices for many including myself, and however big the trackpads are they still feel unwieldly.
My Cloud Backup Approach
I have continously talked about my drive to never lose a file again, after I lost my first file to a failed floppy disk drive in 1996. The fanatical backup approach has been used to work as follows:
Life and Tech - Choices, Decisions and Options
A couple of weeks ago Friday, I shared lessons from my life in technology with a team of upcoming software developers, Life in the Tech Lane, and I got a number of follow-up questions like the one below. On reading the questions, it spurred this post as the responses needed to be long form
The Case of a Platform Rebuild from Laravel
This post is a discussion with a colleague who reached out to me requesting for advice on whether to rebuild their successful e-commerce platform whose usage has grown exponentially over the last 18 months.
Geek Tools - My Keyboard Journey
As a software engineer my days and nights are driven by the need to type instructions for a computer to execute into text files. Thus the keyboard is my primary tool for this input.