To microservice or not to microservice? — In the last few years we were bombed by a mantra: using microservices, the monolith is the evil. Since then, those who are maintaining an old codebase, or are implementing a simple MVC website, have to fight with the sense of inadequacy for not following the microservice pattern. Did you…

Learn why DevOps is not enough — Sorry for writing this clickbait title. I hate to use these tricks, but I needed to get your attention. In the IT trend, DevOps is the buzz word, nowadays. It happened some years ago with front end, when SPA (Single Page Application) became rampant. I think it is usual in…

Learn how to use the Bashy library for a better input parsing and script management — Nowadays, most of the tools and scripting engines have some very important features that save us tons of hours. In my daily work, I appreciate these scripts the most: argument parsing and help support: the ability to self-document the command you are launching, enumerating all the parameters script share: the…

From social networks to content networks — In the last days, the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg of changing the name of Facebook went around. This news caused a stir and was something that most of us cannot expect. …

A simple rule to avoid throwing your project into the trash — Microservices is one of the bigger trends of architectural design. In the last years, most of the software was built on top of this pillar and a lot of people experience very good results. Microservices can provide improvements to performance, scalability, and reduce maintenance costs. Anyway, as I described in…

Extending your application dynamically it’s possible. Learn how. — The development workflow on SPA is quite standard. You add files to the code base, you build them, and the static output is published somewhere. This is very easy but monolithic (you can have multiple modules into the same application, but you basically put them all in an immutable artifact). …

Discover the DevOps simplicity and reduce the Kubernetes complexity — NoOps trend is now possible thanks to public cloud and services that give us solution that works out of the box. Anyway, many of these services come with some limitations or have costs that explode with resource usage. That’s why a lot of developers still prefer solutions like Kubernetes for…

Learn how to implement a self-contained app with a backend in Node and a Vue frontend — Node.js is a very flexible solution used for multiple purposes that go from building an Angular application to implementing a real-time application. Because it is used in all Javascript projects, this technology is spreading also as an API platform. In this article, we will learn how to set up your…