A search microservice with Solr, Docker and Postgres
As I have just joined the team at Armstrong Consulting, I was encouraged to explore the capabilities of Solr within a Docker container and research ways to index existing data… Read more »
Angular/REST/Java microservice architecture – step-by-step
To familiarize ourselves with all the technologies we will be using day-to-day, we wanted to create an application using as many of them as possible as an exercise. In this post we are going to outline the steps to recreate that application.
Struggles with WordPress on Docker
This blog was running on WordPress on a dedicated Ubuntu 14.04 VM host. When I tried to update the host to Ubuntu 16.04, I broke WordPress. Rather than trying to… Read more »
API rate-limiting with HAProxy
We typically deploy REST APIs behind a HAProxy reverse proxy. We often need to enforce SLAs and protect those APIs from being flooded with too many concurrent requests. In this… Read more »
Minimal web server docker containers
Introduction We often need a simple web server as a Docker container to serve up static content (HTML or an Angular app etc). Most people are using lighttpd or nginx… Read more »
API-first meets Java
Introduction In this workshop, we’re going to define a REST API and implement it in Java. Furthermore, we’re going to do it using the API-first methodology, which means we’re going… Read more »
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 »