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Natively Compiled Java on Google App Engine
Google App Engine is a platform-as-a-service product that is marketed as a way to get your applications into the cloud without necessarily knowing all of the infrastructure bits and pieces to do so. Google App ...
Building Better Data Visualization Experiences: Part 2 of 2
If you don't have a Ph.D. in data science, the raw data might be difficult to comprehend. This is where data visualization comes in....
Unleashing Feature Flags onto Kafka Consumers
Feature flags are a tool to strategically enable or disable functionality at runtime. They are often used to drive different user experiences but can also be useful in real-time data systems. In this post, we’ll ...
May 25, 2022
A security model for developers
Software security is more important than ever, but developing secure applications is more confusing than ever. TLS, mTLS, RBAC, SAML, OAUTH, OWASP, GDPR, SASL, RSA, JWT, cookie, attack vector, DDoS, firewall, VPN, security groups, exploit, ...
Building Better Data Visualization Experiences: Part 1 of 2
Through direct experience with data scientists, business analysts, lab technicians, as well as other UX professionals, I have found that we need a better understanding of the people who will be using our data visualization products in order to build them. Creating a product utilizing data with the goal of providing insight is fundamentally different from a typical user-centric web experience, although traditional UX process methods can help....
May 10, 2022
Kafka Schema Evolution With Java Spring Boot and Protobuf
In this blog I will be demonstrating Kafka schema evolution with Java, Spring Boot and Protobuf.  This app is for tutorial purposes, so there will be instances where a refactor could happen. I tried to ...
Redis Bitmaps: Storing state in small places
Redis is a popular open source in-memory data store that supports all kinds of abstract data structures. In this post and in an accompanying example Java project, I am going to explore two great use ...
Mar 30, 2022
Let’s build a WordPress & Kernel updated AMI with Packer
First, let’s start with What is an AMI? An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a master image for the creation of virtual servers in an AWS environment. The machine images are like templates that are configured with ...
Feb 22, 2022
Single Node Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi 4
In this post, I will go through the steps I used to create a single node Kubernetes combination master and worker node on a Raspberry Pi 4. The heavy lifting in this post is done ...
Jan 25, 2022
Retrofit2: Get the body from an error response
Retrofit2 is a nice library for making HTTP rest requests. It includes a static utility (CallUtils) for getting the result from your request, but if the api you’re calling doesn’t return a 2xx request it ...
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