There are times when it is necessary to be able to log the execution time of a method. The simplest way to achieve that would be to modify every method by adding Stopwatch or System.currentTimeMill...

Oftentimes writing application there is a need to offload compute-heavy tasks to an asynchronous worker script, schedule tasks for later, or even write a daemon that listens to a socket to communic...

When working with reactive streams in Java, you may encounter a situation when there is an event-based API that must somehow return data as a stream. In my case for Reactive Streams, I use Reactor...

Using Docker on Synology NAS is quite straightforward. Deploying a new container comes down to a few simple steps: download an image, launch with required parameters and that is it. Updating also s...

Recently I’ve faced the limitation of 2GB of RAM when I wanted to run GitLab Docker container on Synology DS 218+. By default, GitLab recommends having at least 8GB to run the container. But Synolo...

Previously I described how to configure Synology NAS to use own domain name. In this post, I’m going to describe how to deploy Ghost in Synology NAS using Docker. Ghost is a free and open-sourc...

In this post, I describe how you could configure Synology NAS to use your own domain even if you don’t have static IP. Synology NAS provides a build-in functionality to configure your domain lik...

The story is about how I built a homebrew temperature/humidity monitoring system using Arduino, XBee, and Raspberry Pi. Part 1. Abstract The main idea is to build a system to monitor temperature ...