Ravindra Naik

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. If you are looking to gzip  your static JS and CSS when hosting on S3, however, it’s not obvious how to do so, and results often bring up other AWS hosting services as well. Here’s the quick and simple way to serve gzipped JS and CSS from AWS S3. S3 needs those files compressed before they are uploaded, it can’t do the actual gzipping for us. This is done with a simple command, which I recommend be added as a script to your build step, or your continuous integration process. gzip -9 /filepath/bootstrap.js or gzip -9 /filepath/bootstrap.css The -9 denotes tha...

In this blog post, we will go over on how to create windows services in C#. Windows services are started when OS boots and runs the service in the background. It can start automatically or can be made to start, stop or run based on manual trigger. Here is how you can create your own windows service: Open Visual Studio, go to File > New and select Project. Go to Visual C# -> ”Windows Desktop” -> ”Windows Service,” give your project an appropriate name and then click OK. Once you click OK, there will be a black screen with Service1.cs[design] file opened. Now, right click on a blank area, and select Add Installer. We need to add installers to windows service before you run the service, which registers with service control managers. After adding installer, it adds ProjectInstaller.cs to the project. Once you view the code of Project Installer, you would see InitialiseComponent method. Once you go to the definition of it, here you can mention the name of service, descripti...