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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »