graphql
I have recently started on a little project to organise the quotes that I have collected in years of reading (see kindle-citation-extractor). I originally got my quotes into Airtable but I quickly hit the limit for the free tier. I figured that it would be great if I could develop
programming
SQL is a very expressive and powerful language. Unfortunately, it has often been difficult to interact with database using SQL from object-oriented languages due to a mismatch of the data structures in the database versus the structures in the application programming language. One common solution to this problem where Object-relational
open-source
In my previous three posts, I have developed a simple WebGL application using react-three-fiber and three.js. In this post, I am adding texture loading and proper lighting to the application. For reference, here the links to the previous versions of the app: * Version 1: Just being able to drag
coding
I've recently done some research into WebRTC and specifically on how to stream media captured in the browser to a server. Initially I thought I could use something like Kinesis Video Streams and have AWS do the heavy lifting for me. Unfortunately this turned out way more complicated
functional-programming
I always had the feeling that React is just a bit to complex, a bit to 'heavy' to be a truely elegant solution to the problem of building complex user interfaces in JavaScript. Two issues, for instance, are the general project setup, exemplified by the need to have
graphql
Following the GraphQL Apollo Starter Kit (Lerna, Node.js), I wanted to dig deeper into developing a monorepo for a GraphQL/React client-server application. Unfortunately, things are not as easy as I thought at first. Chiefly the create-react-app template does not appear to work very well with monorepos and local
programming
It is no secret that things in the tech world change rather rapidly. It's difficult to keep track of everything at the same time. For instance I have been working with JavaScript quite extensively some years ago but recently have been more involved with other tech stacks. Thus
programming
Today I was having a look around for best practices for defining JavaScript modules. In that search, I came across the book Mastering Modular JavaScript. This book offers a good selection of best practices for JS module development. Also, all chapters are freely available on GitHub: * Chapter 1: Module Thinking
programming
For a few years now, micro services have been all the rage when it comes to the architecture of large applications. Personally I have always been a bit puzzled about what was so new a great about micro services in comparison to what came before them: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
devops
As mentioned in my previous post, I have long been looking for a centralised solution for collecting logs and monitoring metrics. I think my search was unsuccessful since I was looking for too many things in one solution. Instead I found now two separate solutions, one for log management (using
programming
Today I came across a nasty error which occurred in a deployed Java application only but not during development or integration tests. The error went something like the following: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.nio.ByteBuffer.rewind()Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer; at nx.serializerkryo.internal.InternalKryoSerialzer.performToStream(InternalKryoSerialzer.java:33) at nx.
devops
I set up a Jenkins server on a brand new Centos 7 VPS. In the following the instructions for doing this in case you are looking at doing the same: Setting up Jenkins Server * Install OpenJDK Java sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk * Add Jenkins Repo and install Jenkins sudo