An alternatively headline might be: know how your service communicates with it’s dependencies. Ideally, a microservice could work in isolation without having to communicate with any other service or dependency. This is not likely the case and HTTP is the most common way that I’ve…
Netlify is a great service. It gets my workflow and I can’t heap enough praise on it. It provides a subdomain for your site to be hosted on by default. This is great way to get started. At some point though your going to want to move your site off to it’s own domain. Making that …
I only had two hard requirements when I started this site up. At work we have an internal development blog that uses a static site generator. The articles are markdown files that you check into the repository and the CI/CD system builds the site and deploys it. That workflow is v…
Throughout my 20s I was an active participant online. I followed and worked on open source projects in the late 90s and early 2000s. When Web 2.0 (also know as the Social Web) started to take shape I was involved. My Space, Digg, Twitter, Facebook were all sites where I participa…
