Author Archives: lysender

Jenkins-X – Customize release version

Posted on July 3, 2020 by lysender

We have an existing infrastructure in GCP using Kubernetes and Jenkis-X. When one of the owner decided to leave the business due to personal reasons, we ended up moving all the repositories to the other owner. This caused the releases … Continue reading →

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Mongo Read hangs up indefinitely when readPreference is secondary

Posted on April 19, 2020 by lysender

We have a backend API app in Google Cloud using all the Kubernetes goodness. For some reason, we don’t use a Google Cloud backed MongoDB service. Instead, we spin our own MongoDB replicaSet using one of the stable helm charts … Continue reading →

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It’s been a very long time

Posted on March 29, 2020 by lysender

What’s up? Its been a very long time since I’ve posted something in my blog. I’m been very busy with my current job at a startup and it has gotten a good kick start. I’m also busy with trading equities … Continue reading →

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Jest tests failing on CircleCI – ENOMEM: not enough memory

Posted on August 21, 2019 by lysender

Out NestJS tests are intermittently failing with “not enough memory” error being thrown. There is nothing really special about the tests except for the fact that it is growing as the project grows. It turns out a simple CLI parameter … Continue reading →

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TIL – Jest expect to throw error in an async call

Posted on August 13, 2019 by lysender

I just wanted to test that a certain async call should throw an error and I tried it on Jest. I’m already familiar with RSpec which has similar syntax. Below is what I did. The exec method is an async … Continue reading →

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MongoDB ReplicaSet on Docker Environment

Posted on August 10, 2019 by lysender

I was playing around with MongoDB ReplicaSet yesterday in a Docker environment. The purpose is to test the integration with a backend service that connects to MongoDB. It was a very frustrating process especially when done in a local environment … Continue reading →

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Docker Compose Environment Variable and Quotes

Posted on June 24, 2019 by lysender

TLDR: Do not put any double quotes or single quotes into the environment parameter in the docker-compose.yml file. Do we really need the long version of the story? Instead of this: Use this instead: Now this is odd as I … Continue reading →

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React Native + Expo + Redux – _react.default.memo is not a function

Posted on June 3, 2019 by lysender

As of early June 2019 using the latest version of Expo, I’m not able to use Redux as I’m getting this error memo is not a function when trying to use connect. Spoiler, it is because Expo is using a … Continue reading →

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Using Base64 encode/decode in a React Native/Expo app

Posted on May 31, 2019 by lysender

I can’t believe that I can’t easily encode and decode Base64 string in React Native without pulling my hair. I’m using Expo to manage my development workflow and it even adds more confusion. Thankfully, a little trick saves me from … Continue reading →

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First Metro Securities Change Password Issue

Posted on May 23, 2019 by lysender

When I tried to login to First Metro Securities today, it says that my password already expired and won’t let me log in. I think I went to the classic version and tried to login too but when I changed … Continue reading →

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