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) or a minimal php web app. So… 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 »
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 »