Cloud architecture tips you will not regret later
This is the third and final installment of my Nodeconf.eu report. There was also part 1 and part 2 you should probably read first for continuity. Day three of Nodeconf.eu started with a 'Mad Science Act', with all the presenters trading the pre-requisite lab coat (to add 'science' and also a bit of 'mad' to... Continue Reading →
Read part 1 of the report. Before I continue to part 2, a word about timing. Some of you may ask why it took me so long to publish my impressions of an event that happened last week (which, in Internet time, is 'way in the past'). The thing is, I prefer to live the... Continue Reading →
Shady's back, tell a friend! Fresh from the green grass of Ireland where I attended (and presented) at this year's nodeconf.eu, I am now back to report on it as promised. This year's conference is a second instance of a format started last year by Cian Ó Maidín and the friends from Near Form. The goal... Continue Reading →
I hate HA (High Availability). Today everything has to be highly available. All of the sudden SA (Standard Availability) isn't cutting it any more. Case in point: I used to listen to music on my way to work. Not any more - my morning meeting schedule intrudes into my ride, forcing me to participate in... Continue Reading →
Wow, has it been a year already? I am faking surprise, of course, because WordPress has notified me well ahead of time that I need to renew my dejanglozic.com domain. So in actuality I said 'wow, will it soon be a year of me blogging'. Nevertheless, the sentiment is genuine. It may be worthwhile to... Continue Reading →
When working on a distributed system of any size, sooner or later you will hit a problem and proclaim 'well, this is a first'. My second proclamation in such situations is 'this is a nice topic for the blog'. Truth to form, I do it again, this time with the issue of running periodic tasks,... Continue Reading →
Welcome to our regular edition of 'Socket.io version 1.0 watch' or 'Making sure Guillermo Rauch is busy working on Socket.io 1.0 instead of whatever he does to pay the rent that does nothing for me'. I am happy to inform you that Socket.io 1.0 is now available, with the new logo and everything. Nice job!... Continue Reading →
What is going to happen now? Nothing. We will be sad for a while, then we will move on. Mad Men, Don Drapper discusses Kennedy assassination with kids Every once in a while a event occurs that pushes regular programming aside. If you are CNN, it happens with such annoying regularity that completely obviates... Continue Reading →
Read part 1 of the article. Last week I delved into the problem of presenting a unified API doc from a distributed system composed of micro-services. In the second installment, we will get our hands dirty with help of Swagger by Wordnik. A quick recap: the problem we are trying to solve is how to... Continue Reading →
Every aspect of the API matters to some Client. Jim des Rivieres, Evolving Eclipse APIs It is fascinating that the quote above is 14 years old now. It was coined by the Benevolent Dictator of Eclipse APIs Jim des Rivieres in the days when we defined how Eclipse Platform APIs were to be designed and... Continue Reading →
Dejan Glozic 