Trouble with Kubernetes node port

Summary The issue at hand is related to accessing a front-end application deployed on a Kubernetes pod using Minikube. The application is not accessible on the expected NodePort, which is 30100. The setup involves a React app, a Dockerfile for building and running the app, and Kubernetes configurations for deploying the application. Root Cause The … Read more

Loading “cl+ssl”: Unknown character encoding: `:KSC_5601`

Summary A Common Lisp application failed during ASDF system loading with the message: Unknown character encoding: :KSC_5601. This occurred specifically when attempting to load the cl+ssl library, causing crashes in both REPL environments and build scripts. The error stems from a missing alias in Babel. Root Cause The failure occurred due to: Missing encoding alias: … Read more

Windows Path Length Limitation Impact on veraPDF Deployment

Summary The Windows Path Length Limitation can significantly impact the deployment of veraPDF, an open-source PDF validation framework, when bundled within an existing application’s deployment directory with a deeply nested base path. This can lead to file-access issues and runtime errors due to MAX_PATH-related constraints. Root Cause The root cause of this issue is the … Read more

Windows Server 2022 Committed Bytes Peak

Summary The issue at hand involves a Windows Server 2022 system with a WCF Windows service that consumes approximately 55 GB of private bytes. The system’s committed bytes suddenly increased from 105 GB to 160 GB, which is equivalent to the size of the WCF service’s private bytes, causing an out-of-memory exception. This increase in … Read more

Passing a parameter by value instead of rvalue reference

Pass-By-Value Parameter Causes Unintended Copy Operation Summary During optimization of a high-throughput C++ service, we identified severe performance degradation caused by unnecessary object copying in critical path code. The root issue occurred when a struct A was passed by value instead of by rvalue reference to a function spawning asynchronous operations. This resulted in: Unplanned … Read more

How to prevent unnecessary re-renders when passing callbacks to memoized child components?

Summary The issue at hand is preventing unnecessary re-renders in a React application when passing callbacks to memoized child components. The problem arises because functions are re-created on every render, causing the prop reference to change, even if the props used inside the child don’t change. This leads to the child component re-rendering unnecessarily. Root … Read more

JQuery sortable table rows are overflowing their container while moving

Summary When implementing jQuery UI Sortable on table rows within a Bootstrap container, the dragged row (ui-sortable-helper) horizontally overflows its responsive wrapper during drag operations. This occurs when the table’s width exceeds the viewport. Though sorting works functionally, visual overflow compromises UI integrity during drag interactions. Root Cause .table-responsive in Bootstrap uses overflow-x: auto internally, … Read more

Pass a logger to boost::json::tag_invoke

Summary A developer faced a limitation when serializing/deserializing a custom type with boost::json::tag_invoke. Specifically, they needed to pass a logger instance into the tag_invoke function to log warnings about missing JSON fields during permissive deserialization. The issue stems from strict function signature matching required by ADL (Argument Dependent Lookup) in the boost::json namespace. You cannot … Read more