In today’s technology landscape, where cloud computing and open-source software reign supreme, many companies are finding it hard to move away from their longstanding reliance on Oracle. Despite its poor reputation and high costs, Oracle has created deep dependencies for many businesses, making it difficult for them to adopt alternative database solutions. Additionally, the recent shift towards Apple’s M1 hardware has presented new challenges for Oracle users, further reducing productivity and pushing companies towards alternative options.

In the Dialogflow chatbot integration Part-I, you learned how to create a chatbot with provided Training phrases and output response, in this blog you will learn how to connect Dialogflow to your server, send a request to the server from Dialogflow, and receive a response from your server.

Dialogflow is a Google-owned developer of human-computer interaction technologies based on natural language conversations that allow you to create a chatbot. Voice and conversational interfaces created with Dialogflow works with a wide range of devices including phones, wearables, cars, speakers and other smart devices with 14+ languages.

In most of the application, it requires to send email through the app itself like sending email to the user after registration, forgot password, sending feedback, etc. In most cases, we used to have a development, staging, and production server.

The latest stable version is 3.2.2.8, released on 21st Jan 2022.

Latest version: Ruby 3.0.0 Dec 25, 2020

This article is about some of the common webpage issues that are identified while analyzing our Next.js application and how we fixed them.

Recently I stumbled upon a problem with authenticating to Amazon MSK with one of the most prominent python libraries confluent-kafka-python through two different modes of authentication, one being SSL and the other being SASL. One of them uses keys to encrypt data and the other one uses a username and password for encryption.

I always enjoy working on the latest ubuntu servers being a Ubuntu aficionado. It is an LTS. So naturally, my choice would be to have my application run on Ubuntu server 22.04. Since we use AWS extensively, I chose to install it in a c6g nitro instance type. It usesARM architecture too.

Cypress is an open-source automation tool and a Javascript-based framework specially used for end-to-end testing.

This blog describes the procedure to enable SSL authentication for a standalone PostgreSQL setup. We can use a self-signed certificate to enable ssl for our Postgres server. In a production environment, use a certificate signed by a certificate authority (CA).

Monit is an open-source tool for monitoring your machine’s processes, files, directories, file systems, disks, etc.