Complex JSON Handling in Go
In a recent blog post, I showed a fairly naive and contrived microservice example – the equivalent of a RESTful “hello world”. While this example may be helpful in getting some people started, it...
View ArticleCreating a Microservice in Go
A while back (like, quite a while) I started playing with Go and then unfortunate circumstances kept me from continuing my exploration. My recent exposure to super brilliant people has rekindled some...
View ArticleSecuring a Spring Boot Microservice
In my most recent blog post, I decided to try and explore microservices with a popular framework that I had never used before – Spring Boot. ‘Hello world’ samples are all well and good, but they rarely...
View ArticleCreating a Microservice with Spring Boot
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of microservices. I have blogged about creating a microservice with Akka, and I’m an avid follower of all things service-oriented. This weekend I decided that I would...
View ArticleDistributed Transactions in a Cloud-Native, Microservice World
I have been going back and forth between whether I want to do my blogging from WordPress or from Medium. My latest blog, Distributed Transactions in a Cloud-Native, Microservice World, was over on...
View ArticleSomeone Needs to Teach McDonalds about Queueing Theory
I handed over my $1 bill to pay for my remarkably cheap fast food coffee (I had too much blood in my caffeine stream, judge me later). In response, I got a receipt and an hourglass timer. My first...
View ArticleConsuming a REST (micro) Service with Akka HTTP
In a recent blog post, I talked about how we could quickly and easily pull in all the bootstrapping necessary to fire up an HTTP server and create an Akka HTTP micro service. In this blog post, I’m...
View ArticleCreating a Microservice with Akka HTTP and Scala
Lately there’s been a lot of hype and buzz over micro services. The funny thing is, there’s absolutely nothing new about micro services. In fact, back in the good old days when I was trying to convince...
View ArticleBuilding a RESTful Service with Grizzly, Jersey, and Glassfish
I realize that my typical blog post of late usually revolves around creating something with iOS or building an application for Mac OS X or wondering what the hell is up with the Windows 8 identity...
View ArticleStruggling for Elegant Simplicity in the Enterprise
As you know, the theme of this blog is kotan (枯淡), the Japanese word for the concept of the elegance one finds within simplicity. This is what I strive for every day in my code, my architecture, my...
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