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Node microservices, hooks and correlation idsI once gave a talk on microservices using Node.js and complained about the difficulty in passing headers such as a correlation id onto…Nov 7, 2018Nov 7, 2018
Don’t use Node.js to render your assets, use a CDNNode is great at so many things, but serving images and static assets in general was not what it was meant for. That’s where a CDN comes…Oct 23, 2018Oct 23, 2018
Environment variables and 12 factor appsNo more custom properties files, JNDI etc. 12 factor apps promised us the simplicity of environment variables, but how do you manage them?Oct 23, 2018Oct 23, 2018
MicrofrontendsDecomposing a monolith into microservices brings great agility and speed for a development team, providing it is done well. But what about…Oct 23, 2018Oct 23, 2018
