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Disclaimer: This blog article has been generated with the assistance of AI. While the content is AI-generated, the software itself and the ideas behind it are the result of real development work and genuine user needs. Head over to the Complete source code on GitHub Ever wanted to create a smart assistant that can answer questions specifically about your blog content? In this post, I’ll walk you through building a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system...

Disclaimer: This blog article has been generated with the assistance of AI to help announce and explain the features of Rofi Process Killer. While the content is AI-generated, the software itself and the ideas behind it are the result of real development work and genuine user needs. Introducing Rofi Process Killer: A Better Way to Manage Linux Processes Ever found yourself hunting through htop or typing ps aux | grep just to kill a misbehaving...

Author’s Note: I recently encountered this exact library issue. After solving it, I used Claude AI to help me structure this troubleshooting guide based on my experience. The problem and solution are genuine - I just wanted to create a quick resource that others could benefit from. ALB Idle Timeout Configuration: Best Practices to Prevent 5xx Errors If you’ve ever encountered mysterious 502 Bad Gateway or 504 Gateway Timeout errors from your AWS Application Load...

When I first learned about non-blocking I/O, I had a burning question: how does a process know when I/O operations complete? Is there some background kernel process constantly checking for data and then notifying user-space applications? The answer reveals one of the most elegant solutions in systems programming. The Problem with Blocking I/O To understand non-blocking I/O, let’s first examine what happens with traditional blocking I/O. When your program makes a system call like read()...

Author’s Note: I recently encountered this exact library issue with qimgv and OpenCV on my Arch Linux system. After solving it, I used Claude AI to help me structure this troubleshooting guide based on my experience. The problem and solution are genuine - I just wanted to create a comprehensive resource that others could benefit from. If you’ve been using Linux for a while, you’ve probably encountered the dreaded “cannot open shared object file” error...

Quick refereshers on how locks are implemented in databases. Exclusive Locks - The row is locked for read and update. Until the exclusive lock is released, no reads and writes are allowed. Only one transaction can acquire an exclusive lock. Shared Lock - The row is locked for update. However, readers are allowed to read. Multiple transactions are allowed to acquire shared locks. Major points If the transaction has shared lock on resource, other transaction...

If you’re running Elasticsearch in Docker locally, you might encounter a frustrating issue where your cluster suddenly goes into a red (unhealthy) state, even though everything seems fine. This often happens when your local disk usage exceeds 90%. I tend to mount the elasticsearch data directory into my host file system to preserve data. version: "3.9" services: elasticsearch: image: elasticsearch:9.0.2 environment: - discovery.type=single-node - ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms1g -Xmx1g - xpack.security.enabled=false volumes: - ./es_data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data ports: - target: 9200...

Certificate pinning code for Java package org.example; import javax.net.ssl.*; import java.io.*; import java.net.URL; import java.security.MessageDigest; import java.security.cert.Certificate; import java.security.cert.X509Certificate; import java.util.Base64; public class CertificatePinningClient { // SHA-256 fingerprint of the expected certificate // You need to replace this with the actual certificate fingerprint of madhur.co.in private static final String EXPECTED_CERT_SHA256 = "YOUR_CERT_FINGERPRINT_HERE"; public static void main(String[] args) { try { String fingerprint = getCertificateFingerprint("https://localhost:8443"); System.out.println(fingerprint); // String response = makeSecureRequest("https://madhur.co.in"); // System.out.println("Response: " + response);...

I wanted to combine videos using the tool. I had two videos in 9x16 format and wanted to combine side by side. With a little bit of trial and error, I was able to achieve this using ffmpeg The exact command is ffmpeg -i video1.mp4 -i video2.mp4 -filter_complex "[0:v]scale=540:960:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=540:960:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2[v0];[1:v]scale=540:960:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=540:960:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2[v1];[v0][v1]hstack=inputs=2[v]" -map "[v]" -map 0:a -c:v libx264 -c:a aac output.mp4 Breaking Down the Command Let’s understand what each part of this complex command does: Input Files -i...

Recently we faced an interesting issue in our data pipeline where we observed Kafka consumer lag suddenly dropping whenever it reached a certain threshold. This behavior was unexpected and potentially concerning, as consumer lag—the difference between the latest message produced and the message currently being processed by consumers—should typically decrease gradually as consumers process messages. The Problem Our application was relatively simple, with two instances of pods running in Kubernetes. Since we didn’t need high...