Tag: DevOps

Building a Delayed Message System with Redis and FastAPI

2025-01-10 Debugging Development
Recently, I had a chance to help a fellow software engineer with an interesting project – building a system that allows printing delayed messages using Redis. The requirements were simple: 1. Implement a POST API endpoint that accepts a string message and a relative time in seconds (since now).2. Implement…

Life got much easier – Using Lombok with Java

2018-03-12 Development Tips & Tricks
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. From their documentation: Project Lombok is a java library that…

How to consume all messages from an SQS queue ?

2018-01-14 Tips & Tricks
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 useful for de-coupling between micro-services and allowing reliable transfer of…

Getting the right Jenkins build number using Python

2017-06-27 Tips & Tricks
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 this build number. For example: //storage/build_1000, //storage/build_1001 and etc. There…