How to Build a Koa Web Application – Part 1
You may be a seasoned or novice web developer, but no matter your level of experience, you must always be able to set up...
How to Build a Koa Web Application – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we got everything in place for our Koa app using Jade and Mongel. In this post, we will...
Application Flow With Generators
Oftentimes, developers like to fall back to using events to enforce the concept of a workflow, a rigid diagram of business logic that branches...
Mono to Micro-Services: Splitting that fat application
As articles state everywhere, we're living in a fast pace digital age. Project complexity, or business growth, challenges existing development patterns. That's why many...
Intro to Docker Part 2: Developing a Simple Application
In my last post, we learned some basic concepts related to Docker, and we learned a few basic operations for using Docker containers. In...
Using Cloud Applications and Containers
We can find a certain comfort while developing an application on our local computer. We debug logs in real time. We know the exact...
Containerizing a Web Application with Docker Part 1
Congratulations, you’ve written a web application! Now what?
Part one of this post deals with steps to take after development, more specifically the creation of...
Rapid Application Development with Django, the Openduty story
Openduty is an open source incident escalation tool, which is something like Pagerduty but free and much simpler. It was born during a hackathon...
Tiered Application Architecture with Docker Compose, Part 3
This is the third part in a series that introduces you to basic web application containerization and deployment principles. If you're new to the...
Running Your Applications with AWS
If you’ve ever been told not to run with scissors, you should not have the same concern when running with AWS. It is neither...