This is the third part of the guide to setting up an automated workflow to deploy code to a Kubernetes cluster following a change in a git repository. The first two parts of this series so far belong in the dev portion of devops. They encompass what most software engineers do to build and test […]
Jun 2023
According to the Python documentation, x < y <= z is equivalent to x < y and y <= z, but real-world testing indicates they produce different code.
Back in my C++ days, I knew most of the ins and outs of make, and makefiles and sub-makefiles. I could do pretty much whatever I needed to. Of course, in complicated projects the files start looking really ugly inside. Then for Java there was ant, which tidied up all the targets and dependencies in structured […]
Jun 2018
In a previous article, I showed how to set up a web application to use microservices with just the bare minimum of effort. However, that can result in some limitations, such as the presentation layer (or API Gateway) that aggregates the results of the microservices using hard-coded endpoint addresses (e.g. http://localhost:8888/api/v1/fromurl). In actual practice, this […]
Recently, I realized that I wasn’t as hands-on with microservices as I needed to be, so over the weekend, I created a web app that uses microservices to get a better feel for this system architecture paradigm. The app does a pretty simple task: given a bunch of URLs of online job postings, it fetches […]