XStream Int parsing issue

This blog is about issue in parsing int data from an xml.
While working with XStream I experienced a problem, if the xml comprises an int data beginning from 0 XStream was throwing an Exception ConversionException. On digging deeper I patterned out that the converter(IntConverter) used to convert the string value into corresponding integer value was causing problem. If the string had 0 as prefix then that string is treated as an octal value and it try to decode it as an octal value. That's why when a value such as 089 is processed by this converter, the converter processed that value as an octal and tried to decode it and since 8 & 9 are not in octal base that's why converter was throwing this exception. To get the better of this problem you can either have the numeric values in xml without following 0s or you can write your own converter.

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EC2 Ssh Connection Refused

When ssh: connect to host ip_address port 22 Connection refused

Unable to access server???
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VPC per envrionvment versus Single VPC for all environments

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Before jumping right away into the real talk I would like to give a bit of background on how I come up with this blog, I was working with a client in managing his cloud infrastructure where we had 4 environments dev, QA, Pre Production and Production and each environment had close to 20 instances, apart from applications instances there were some admin instances as well such as Icinga for monitoring, logstash for consolidating logs, Graphite Server to view the logs, VPN server to manage access of people.

At this point we got into a discussion that whether the current infrastructure set-u…

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