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[Tech Blog] How to deal with JVM OOM issues in GKE

Hello, my name is Anton, and I'm a tech lead at AnyMind. In this article, we discuss memory issues

that you might face while developing software systems in Google Cloud and K8S in particular.

The article covers the very basics of GC in JVM and possible ways of solving OOM problems.

137 exit code

You wake up in the morning, get a sip of coffee, and run kubectl get pods.

Everything seems ok, but some pods got restarted by K8S for some reason.

You run kubectl decribe pod <your_pod> and see the following:

Last State: Terminated

Reason:

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AnyMind Group

Oct 8, 2021

[Tech Blog] Should You Use Context or Redux in React Application?

Redux is a library that helps to manage the state of your application.

Redux should be used in medium to large single-page applications with complex data flow. Redux can add unnecessary complexity to your application if your application is really small with a simple data flow.

On the other hand, in v16.3 react team introduced Context which also helps to manage the state of a react application.

I'm Ashraful, working as a frontend developer in Anymind Group. Today I'm going to share how we are managing a part of our global application state in AnyTag/

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AnyMind Group

Oct 7, 2021

[Tech Blog] A quick guide into Protobuf

Hello! I am Alexander, a back-end engineer in the AnyTag project.

In this quick guide I want to introduce you ProtoBuffers aka Protobuf, when need to use it and give an example on how to use it in Kotlin and Python. If you still never heard about Protobuf or had no time to try it this tour is for you.

What is it?

Protobuf is a binary format for message exchange between network services, created by Google with open-source code. The main focus was on creating simpler, faster, and smaller-sized format relatively to existing formats. PB is supported by Go

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AnyMind Group

Oct 6, 2021

[Tech Blog] How to recognize repetitive patterns and optimize them with React Hooks

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Hi, my name is Pavel and I'm front-end developer at AnyMind (AnyTag & AnyCreator platforms)

and today I'd like to talk about how we are using react hooks to simplify our codebase, eliminate repetitive patterns and how you can recognize them.

"Can we reuse it?" or "You can refactor this as util function and reuse later" - I believe everyone is well familiar with such code review comments, the reason for that is very simple - code reusability is one of the most important topics among sof

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AnyMind Group

Oct 6, 2021

[Tech Blog] Factors on deciding what Test Management Tool to use

With the IT industry evolving/changing every single day, companies or projects, or teams are finding ways on how to keep up with the trend and not be outdated. In order to achieve that goal, aside from implementing new technology and increasing the automated processes involved, testing is also vital whether it’s manual or automated, or both.

With the right planned and organized testing involved, you can deliver features faster with higher quality and accommodate more of your user’s needs. One way to achieve that goal is by using test management tools. H

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Oct 5, 2021

[Tech Blog] Python Libraries for humans

If you are a software engineer or a python programmer to be specific, you're more likely to have used several

libraries and open source projects. And pretty sure, some of them catches your attention and fascinated with

how powerful, and it makes your life so much easier!

I'm Patrick, a software engineer from AnyMind Group. And in this article, I want to share some interesting

and powerful python libraries. These libraries have been our "go-to", and acted as heroes when we are in need :D

Python Libraries

As the saying goes, "We don't