Learning curve: Work and Reflection

Hosting the database outside of premise systems in saas environment comes with security risks. There should be protocols setup for every storage mechanism to handle the situations of breach of penetration which could result in data leak. Educating the team involved on the importance of security is the first step to start with, Few considerations that can be taken up has been listed based on my experience. Firstly the servers used for hosting should be reliable with latest security patches available. Most of the providers are quick to patch and prevent any recent penetration attacks on other servers. In case of web application, deploy the database on a different server with private IP and access to it should be limited with fewer individuals from local machines. The passwords used should be strong and default udp/tcp ports should not be used to reduce predictability by bots when connecting to database. Setting of HTTPS server would help to provide an extra layer of security as any r

Metaprogramming  is a programming technique in which computer programs have the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program can be designed to read, generate, analyze or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running.(wikipedia)  Using simple code samples let's give basic start to metaprogramming which helps to relate how code base can be simplified.  Considering the below class. Now, using some metaprogramming concepts above code can be modified, notice the assign_attributes method used while the o/p in both the examples is same Adding some more examples, below simple code helps to generate methods on the fly instead of defining in individually Metaprogramming should be used with caution and not make the code complicated and difficult to read. It should be easy to understand and modular to change in future.

Using gem aws-sdk for a ROR application for uploading images to s3 Uploading images to a fixed bucket with different folders for each object or application. The s3 keeps a limitation on the number of buckets creation whereas there is no limitation for content inside a bucket. This code will upload image for a user to s3 using aws-sdk gem. The bucket and the image uploaded are made public, so that the images uploaded are directly accessible. The input is takes is the image complete path where it is present, folder in which it should be uploaded and user_id for whom it should be uploaded. def save_screenshot_to_s3(image_location, folder_name,user_id) service = AWS::S3.new(:access_key_id => ACCESS_KEY_ID, :secret_access_key => SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) bucket_name = "app-images" if(service.buckets.include?(bucket_name)) bucket = service.buckets[bucket_name] else bucket = service.buckets.create(bucket_name

 Before you read below, make sure MongoDB is the right choice for your application. It's Nonrelational and Document oriented database. Mongoid::Criteria Let's say you query all user data, @users = User.all while using mongoid. So when you access @users in views, it's Mongoid::Criteria and ruby methods will not work ex- to_json. When we iterate over @users, say @users.each do |user| p user end For each user entry, query is fired which could easily be avoided by changing the query to @users = User.all.entries or @users = User.all.to_a. Also for single object @user = User.where(email: "bijendra.biju@gmail.com").first. Index your database: use the specific fields while indexing which will fasten the search. Indexes improve the efficiency of read operations by reducing the amount of data that query operations need to process. Apart from read operations indexes can support sort operation and allow for a more efficient storage utilization. For ex:

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So the issue was, amazon issued an warning regarding the server to be terminated, before i could think of making an backup the instance stopped. The troubleshoot operations like reboot, stop and start didn't worked. Simple Steps to start a fresh instance with the previous content on server.

When you try to ssh into a instance and it failed giving errors which says remote host identification changed, possibly you have tried to ssh into that earlier but either it's been mapped to a IP or dns name has been assigned to that instance.you can resolve this issue ..

ActionView::Template::Error (Cannot allocate memory - nodejs /tmp/execjs20131021-26716-fckzo3.js 2>&1 Nodejs is used to compile javascript at runtime. In RoR applications, this error comes when server is started in production mode which compiles the assets or while running rake assets:precompile . check for swap space and allocate

Using the steps below you can uninstall mysql from ubuntu , Started with this sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-client mysql-server   

Queries being executed along with time and space complexity helps to optimise database in the best possible ways. Though this topic has been covered vastly, i will pull the very basic ones for the beginners.

We often have to interact with linux servers over remote m/c's for deployment or maintenance issues. I would specify very basic commands which comes handy few times .