Postgres-BDR is an excellent multi-master replication clustering extension for PostgreSQL (https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/postgres-bdr-2ndquadrant/). We often use it for fault tolerant systems – its asynchronous and uncomplicated to set up (at least if… Read more »
Current plans for contact-tracing are based around mobile phones, because these have built-in capabilities for location tracking and contact detection. An alternative to mobile phones for contact-tracing would be a… Read more »
Each contact you have with another person potentially infects you with a virus. If the person you have contact with later tests positive for that virus, the contact you had… Read more »
Contact-tracing is one of the most useful tools in the fight to control the spread of a virus. Authorities in China, Singapore and South Korea have successfully deployed contact-tracing as… 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 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 »