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Despite the controversy and different opinions that Node.js generates among web developers, after all, it’s a technology that it’s widely used, so, sooner or later, a web developer (and sysadmin) will have to face it, meaning this that everyone should have, at least, a basic knowledge about it. This example will show how to easily set up a Node environment, within ...

Docker has been touted as the holy grail of on-premises software container solutions. Docker Swarm is the orchestration upgrade that allows you to scale your containers from a single host to many hosts, and from tens of containers into thousands of them. But does it deliver on that promise? Let’s run 1,000 containers to find out. Prepare the Network I’m ...

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So, this post was going to be completely different. I was going to do a post on how you can restrict the creation and scoping of certain objects using Python’s with code blocks. Unfortunately, with doesn’t restrict scope. Take the following code sample: with someManager() as i: # do something with i print(i) This will, unfortunately, work and print whatever ...

ActionCable was introduced to Rails as of version 5. It allows you to create pub/sub WebSocket connections in your Rails application, which brings live updates to your user experience. ActionCable upgrades an HTTP connection between the server and client to a WebSocket. Some of the benefits of a WebSocket is that the amount of data transferred per transmission is considerably ...

When one uses Docker for a while, after the excitement of how amazing is Docker is gone, he starts realizing that building and pulling images, and creating containers by hand, may not be the best way for managing Docker applications and services. Luckily, Ansible, one of the most powerful IT Automation tool, comes to the rescue here. Ansible offers modules for ...

One of the least glamorous aspects of implementing a Microservices architecture is the security. It’s not fun or cool when compared to things like the circuit breaker or service discovery, yet it is a critical piece of the ecosystem especially in an enterprise setting. I’m working on a large Microservices project for a healthcare enterprise on the East Coast. One ...

I’m sure we’ve all been there. That moment when you realize that important and sensitive access details have leaked online into a public space and potentially rendered your services to unrequited access. With the ever-growing amount of services we depend on for our development stack, the number of sensitive details to remember and track has also increased. To cope with ...

With the new CSS3 Flexbox box model, you can now write more concise and maintainable code for various common layout tasks — such as vertical centering, taking up remaining space, or simpler grids. After this tutorial, you’ll be able to use Flexbox and understand exactly how it works. 1.  Introducing Flexbox The CSS3 Flexbox spec contains quite a few properties. ...