Designing REST APIs – lessons learnt
Introduction We’ve been designing and deploying micro-services with REST APIs for a while now, using API-First design. Time to document some of the lessons we’ve learnt during that process. They’re… Read more »
API-First Design
Introduction We have been applying API-First design principles for several years now and advise our customers to do the same. As the name suggests, API-First design means designing a system… Read more »
git workshop
Introduction In this post, we’ll cover the basics of using the git source control system, which has emerged as the dominant tool in this space (especially since Microsoft paid $7.5B… Read more »
VMWare Clarity/Angular modal dialogs
The VMWare Clarity Design System documentation is a bit vague about how modal dialogs should be handled. The examples presented are not really appropriate for real-world applications, where dialogs need… Read more »
Letsencrypt in 15 minutes
I was looking for a simple way to use Let’s Encrypt to enable https for a web site and I found a Docker image nmarus/docker-haproxy-certbot which met my needs. Remember, Let’s Encrypt… Read more »
Backing up ESXi VMs with ghettoVCB
We’ve been using the free ESXi ghettoVCB backup utility for the last 5 years to backup about 150 VMs daily without a glitch. ghettoVCB snapshots the VM, copies away the… Read more »
Borg backup
Borg backup (https://github.com/borgbackup) is an open source backup tool which, in addition to the usual backup features like strong client-side encryption and compression, has several important characteristics which make it… Read more »
Postgres-BDR + Docker: shared-nothing multimaster-replication databases made easy
Postgres-BDR + To achieve fault tolerance, you need redundant systems. There are two basic approaches to redundancy, active-standby or active-active. Active-standby Active-standby means that in the event of failure of the active… Read more »
Docker workshop
Overview: We recently carried out a short introductory Docker workshop, starting from scratch, installing Docker and taking it through to the point where a software stack, consisting of several linked… Read more »