Cloud architecture tips you will not regret later
When I was a kid, I went to the movies to watch Mel Brooks' "History of The World, Part I". I had a great time and could not wait for the sequel (that featured, among other things, Hitler on ice, a Viking funeral and laser-shooting rabbis in 'Jews in Space' teaser). Alas, 'Part II' never came.... Continue Reading →
Update: I have received a ton of feedback on this post, and some of the well meaning criticism is concerned with the term 'dysfunctional', considering it a bit 'judgy' from somebody that is supposed to help these same teams. Apart from yielding a catchy title, Hacker News reader was spot on when he declared my... Continue Reading →
What a difference a year makes. Astute readers of this blog may remember my sitting on the Node.js fence in the fall of 2013. I eventually jumped off the fence thanks to the wave of presentations at the last year's NodeSummit indicating that Node.js was ready. During the ensuing year I have become a vocal supporter... Continue Reading →
On the heels of the last week's post on the futility of server vs client side debate, here comes an example. I wanted to do this a long time and now the progress of the Bluemix project I am working on has made it important to figure out isomorphic apps in earnest. For those who have... Continue Reading →
Yes, I know. I stopped blogging to take a desperately needed break. Then I returned only to be hit with a mountain of fresh, 'hit the ground running', honest to God January work that knocked the air out of my lungs and pinned me down for a while. Then an IBM colleague tried to ask me... Continue Reading →
This week we spent a lot of time sifting through the available options for the client side Web component model. We were doing it in the context of figuring out what to use for the next generation of Bluemix, so we were really trying to think hard and strategic. It is a strange time to... Continue Reading →
We at IBM are not strangers to large, well capitalized conferences. As things go in the conference-industrial complex, it is a big deal when one of your keynote speakers is Kevin Spacey, or Imagine Dragons entertain you after hours. So to say that the first Full Stack Toronto Conference was on the opposite side of... Continue Reading →
Now here is somebody with all her eggs in one basket, literarily. I used it to illustrate what index investing tries to avoid. I thought of index investing while reading the bitter and often hilarious reactions to the announced changes in Angular.js 2.0 on Reddit. I also thought about my experience with Google services. Watch me tie all... Continue Reading →
Dispite many desirable properties, micro-services carry two serious penalties to be contended with: authentication (which we covered in the previous post) and Web page composition, which I intend to address now. Imagine you are writing a Node.js app and use Dust.js for the V of the MVC, as we are doing. Imagine also that several... Continue Reading →
And we are back with the regularly scheduled programming, and I didn't talk about micro-services in a while. Here is what is occupying my days now - securing a micro-service system. Breaking down a monolith into a collection of micro-services has some wonderful properties, but also some nasty side-effects. One of them is authentication. The... Continue Reading →
Dejan Glozic 