My 12 Rules Of Life

1. TAKE OWNERSHIP.
   Life is brutal to say the least. Unimaginably bad things can happen to you. It may or may not be your fault. Take ownership, learn your lessons from the event and move on.
2. NEVER EVER GIVE UP.
   Be persistent like a wolf. Persist until you get what you want.
3. GET RID OF FEAR.
   Overcome it by doing what you fear repetitiously until you are sure it can no longer come back to haunt you.

Jumping Jacks and Sleeping Santas

The Legend

Jumping Jacks (JJ) : Individuals who hop from one company to another, not staying long enough in one company. How long is long enough? Unfortunately, that is very subjective and not to be questioned.

Sleeping Santas (SS) : Individuals who stay in a company long enough and show no intentions of leaving it any time sooner. How long is long enough? Unfortunately, that is very subjective but has been questioned in private.

Every Coin Has Two Sides

The objective of this post is not to take sides on which personality type is good. There are a ton of rants and prejudiced views on this subject. The goal of this post is to encourage you to take the blinders off your eyes and motivate you to explore and learn about the candidates you come across during hiring in your company.

Let us go through 10 common traits and see how each is perceived in positive and/or negative way for both of these personalities. Needless to say, the objective of this post is help see you both sides of a coin in the hopes that it stops you from being judgemental.

LoadBalancer support with Minikube for Kubernetes

Kubernetes (aka K8s) is an open source system (from Google) for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts; providing basic mechanisms for deployment, maintenance, and scaling of applications.

Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally on your laptop/desktop. Minikube runs a single-node K8s cluster inside a VM on your laptop for users looking to try out K8s or develop with it day-to-day.

Spring Tool Suite desktop entry to launch as app from Ubuntu favourites

For any app to be launched from favourites in Ubuntu, it needs to have a ".desktop" file that can be pinned to the Ubuntu's dash as favourite. This helps in quickly launching the application at the click of a button from Ubuntu's dash in desktop.

Spring Tool Suite IDE (aka STS) for ubuntu comes as a zip file that needs to be extracted to a custom location. Inside this extracted directory you'll find a linux/ubuntu executable file by the name that goes something like SpringToolSuite4.

Install Minikube on Ubuntu 18.10

Note: I prefer  KVM over VirtualBox, because it is faster and made my life easier in working flawlessly without any integration/permission issues with Minikube.

Note: For VirtualBox, instead of the snippet shown in the picture above I used snippet as in post - Install VirtualBox 6.0 on Ubuntu 18.10.

This is a quick reference picture. Want to copy-paste them making your life easier? Check out this snippet in github-gist.

Looking for alternative to Minikube? Try Microk8s - it's easier to install and much faster in execution.