Is it really a Singleton?
Recently, I have investigated a defect that is interesting to share. As part of our operations, we need to be able to run tools, which will invoke APIs on different AWS services. For example, one common tool is to run […]
Category: Tips & Tricks
Marking field as required when using Lombok Builder
The builder pattern is nice and useful, and using Lombok @Builder annotation instead of implementing it each time can save a lot of time. However, there is one problem with this. You can’t really define a required field. For example, […]
Life got much easier – Using Lombok with Java
After more than 5 years programming in C++, recently I’ve started my first steps programming in Java. There are many differences and I’ll try to share some tips that will make your lives better 🙂 First one is Project Lombok. […]
How to consume all messages from an SQS queue ?
My goal was finding an AWS service that will answer the following requirements: Store large amounts of data (split into small chunks) reliably. Accessible from multiple zones/regions. Low read/write latencies. Cheap enough. SQS is a powerful service that is really […]
Getting the right Jenkins build number using Python
One of the jobs in our CI pipeline is responsible for compiling, building and packing the code. The artifacts of the job is a directory on our storage with the build number and all the artifacts that are related to […]
Bash Tips & Tricks: Handling failures in pipe
If you’re using bash, you probably know that pipes are really nice and helpful. Recently I wasted a lot of time trying to realize why one of our tests failed on data corruption (we are kind-of a storage company so […]