Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers a generous Always Free Tier that’s perfect for developers and homelab enthusiasts looking to run containerized applications. In this guide, I’ll show you how to: Summarize the key benefits of the Always Free ...
I recently stumbled upon Oracle Cloud. Previously, I ahve experiences with using AWS Free tier services (valid for 12 months) for spwaning EC2 instances. However, upon some research, it seems Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers one of the most g...
Sometimes you need to allow for self-hosted subscription of your SaaS whether it's because your client has their own air-gapped system that is not connected to the internet or they want to host it in their on-premise servers. Having the option is alw...
As macOS developers, creating universal binaries and shared libraries that work seamlessly across both Intel (x86_64) and Apple Silicon (arm64) architectures is critical. Whether you’re building standalone executables or .so` shared libraries, combin...
Background We had a requirement to include a Terms and Conditions block in an existing PDF. The terms and conditions were represented as rows of an HTML table. For this, we were converting HTML to PDF using the puppeteer-html-pdf Node.js package. On ...
Last year, around the same time, I added a feature in market data notification to scrape the stocks fear greed index from https://edition.cnn.com/markets/fear-and-greed, with selenium and chrome webdriver. Difference in development and production The...
Introduction As we've seen in the last post, virt-install helps speed up virtual machine (VM) installation. It can not only create VM for the CPU architecture it's currently running on, it can do other architectures as well. We'll create an ARM64 vir...
If you have been following along, you are probably asking "What took so long?" and I totally understand. I had no idea what was wrong before today. My scripts had been working for over a year, then just stopped. I had removed a bunch of the debug inf...
In Memgraph, we were always building packages for x86_64 architecture, but when Apple’s M1 chip became prevalent in the new laptops we had to adapt. The article on how we adapted to build our Debian packages for ARM64, the architecture of the M1 chip...
Background I’m a fan of using buildpacks. I’ve been using and updating the paketo-arm64 repository started by Daniel Mikusa. With Spring Boot 3 going GA, very soon, more people are wanting to use buildpacks with their M1 machines. I feel pressure, in...
