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Automate API testing using Postman Collection

Postman is a very popular tool used by a lot of developers to collaborate for API development. It is also a very powerful tool and can be used for end to end automated API testing.

How to SSH into an EC2 instance using Boto3

The simplest way to programmatically SSH into an EC2 instance is to using the Paramiko package. In this post, I will show you how to use this package to SSH with multiple retries and then execute your commands on it.

How to add HTTP Cache-Control Headers in Flask

Using caching can vastly improve the performance of your applications. There are different types of caching options available while developing Web applications but HTTP caching is one of the simplest ways to improve the performance of your application.

How to Host Multiple WordPress sites on Cloud

I have a few WordPress blogs, a couple of PHP based websites and a flask application. I recently decided to host all my websites in one place. Until recently I was using Amazon EC2 for some of these websites but it was proving to be quite costly so I decided to switch to Google Cloud.

Working with NFC tags on Android

In this post, I will show you how to read and write an NFC tag on an Android device. We would be using Android’s NFC capabilities to read and write a tag.

Working with Recycler Views in Espresso Tests

In this short post, I will introduce you to a few utility methods that might be useful while working with RecyclerView in Espresso Tests. Introduction In this post, I am assuming that you are already using a RecyclerView in your app.

Write your First Neural Network Using TensorFlow

Introduction Neural Networks are a specific set of machine learning algorithms that are inspired by biological neural networks and they have revolutionized machine learning. In simple terms, they are general function approximations, which can be applied to almost any machine learning problem about learning a complex mapping from the input to the output space.

My Year in Review 2019

This year was quite an exciting year for me, and a lot of things kept me busy throughout the year. I traveled to several places(including six countries), quit my ~4-year-old job, got admit for Masters, and started mentoring young kids.

A Quick Look at Everything you Need to Obtain an F1 Visa!

Today I appeared for my F1 visa interview and got the Visa approved. After you get the admission of your choice, you might feel a bit relaxed but the hectic part has just started.

Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019

The Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019, Atlanta concluded last week. I attended this conference for the first time, and it was an enjoyable experience for me. The central theme of the conference was around developer productivity, and several sessions were held covering different aspects of this theme.
Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019