Getting Started with the PLONK Stack
You've heard of LAMP, JAM, and MEAN, but what is the PLONK stack? And why should you be considering it for your Cloud Native Applications instead of...
FaaS for the Rubyist
We'll be using OpenFaaS today and its ruby-http template that gives full control over the HTTP request/response for your functions. OpenFaaS is a nex...
Webhooks... Great when you can get them.
There are traditionally two ways to get data from third-party systems: polling and pub-sub. In a polling method, your code has to continually ask ano...
Golang basics - writing unit tests
In the previous post titled "Grab JSON from an API" we explored how to interact with a HTTP client and parse JSON. This post is a continuation of tha...
Golang basics - fetch JSON from an API
This is a recipe in Golang for making a "GET" request over HTTP to an API on the Internet. We will be querying an endpoint provided for free that tel...
Node.js vs Bash
On April 1st the Raspberry PI foundation published a blog post The little computer that could where they described in detail how Raspberry PI Model 3...