Apr 7, 2022“Together, Stronger!” — My Toastmaster Journey: Part 02 — Writing a Speech for a PurposeIt has been sometime since I did my ice breaker speech at the Toastmasters club. Recently, I got an opportunity to proceed with my second speech. I am on my Presentation mastery pathway, therefore the next speech is focused on writing a speech with a purpose. The pathway itself does…Toastmasters5 min readToastmasters5 min read
Jan 29, 2022I want to break free! — The journey to the Ice Breaker speech of shy and introvert person who thought he will never be able to face a public audienceThe speaker has just shared his experience in a nicely presented and structured speech. The audience soaks in the silence of being speechless for several seconds. Then once everyone finish gathering their thoughts, they rush for questions. I sits among them. My mind is filled with so many questions about…Inspiring Stories5 min readInspiring Stories5 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Jun 24, 2021Member-onlyLet’s build a simple distributed computing system, for modern cloudDesign, develop, and test a fresh distributing computing framework from scratch while focusing being Simple, Modern, and Extensible — The way of writing software is much different now. Being cloud native is one of the key goals for almost every software system architecture out there. In this article, we will explore how can we build a simple and extensible distributed computing framework, tailored for the modern cloud. …Distributed Systems8 min readDistributed Systems8 min read
Published in Explore Coding·Jun 4, 2021Distributed Computing and Apache Hadoop: Why? and How?This blog is going to explore WHY a project like Apache Hadoop was created, and HOW it negotiates resources in a distributed computing infrastructure. In the end of this blog, you will be able to understand the fundamental reasons of why we needed the distributed computing platforms, and how Apache…Distributed Systems5 min readDistributed Systems5 min read
May 17, 2021Member-onlyBuilding an open-source playground for the CloudSim FrameworkIn my previous article about the CloudSim framework, I talked about configuring the popular JAVA IDE, IntelliJ IDEA to implement CloudSim simulation scenarios. Which is a more up-to date approach. But what I felt while working on this fun project is that depending on an IDE to use the framework…Cloudsim6 min readCloudsim6 min read
May 13, 2021Member-onlyCloudSim Setup using IntelliJ IDEACloudSim is a simulation toolkit for cloud environments, which allows modelling cloud computing infrastructures with various application loads, configurations, etc. CloudSim is a community driven project initially developed by the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, University of Melbourne and under the GPL license. Being an extensible framework, the…Cloud Computing4 min readCloud Computing4 min read
Nov 21, 2020Browser Cookies Explained!Browser cookies are pieces of information set in your browser by the remote servers. Often people have heard the term but not really clear on the use case that it is intended to cover. In this blog post, I will discuss why we needed this technique in the first place…Https5 min readHttps5 min read
Published in Identity Unlocked·Sep 9, 2020Member-onlyWriting a custom Log4j2 appender for WSO2 Identity ServerIt’s needless to say that logs are the saviors for developers. They play a vital role in monitoring and debugging software solutions. In an abstract view, logging involves providing useful information during the code execution. With production code, usually, there are different levels of logging this information such as AUDIT…Wso 24 min readWso 24 min read
Published in Identity Beyond Borders·Apr 4, 2019Member-onlyDeploy Microsoft Office 365 with WSO2 Identity Server!Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel…. and the familiar list go on and on. When I started using a computer, these were the mainstream apps, actually the only apps I started using! Microsoft Office suite is been there for a long, long time. …Microsoft10 min readMicrosoft10 min read
Published in Identity Beyond Borders·Apr 4, 2019Member-onlyAuthenticate with Vault by HashiCorp Using WSO2 Identity ServerAuthentication and authorization is a crucial part of any secret management system. Thus I would say, Identity and Access management is the cornerstone for all secret management systems. Secrets, which are literally needed to be handled by the correct person with the correct privileges, cannot go into wrong hands. In…Hashicorp Vault10 min readHashicorp Vault10 min read
