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How #docker Changed Software Engineering
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-docker-changed-software-engineering-b87982f0029f?source=rss----3a814

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Whale image on Pixabay10 years back it was Git that transformed the way software engineers worked. Half a decade back it was Docker that brought the container to the masses. Before Docker, the container was like a sacred secret in companies like Google and Heroku. Docker is a software and a company too. It tried to build a broader ecosystem but Kubernetes stole the thunder along the way keeping swarm at bay. This post is not about how some Docker tools are not popular. It is about how Docker has changed the way we work in the past 5 years.Whale Image on UnsplashTLDR;With Docker, you ship the whole stack not only your code. Allocate minimum required resources to containers then scale them horizontally. With containers security generally already comes baked In. With Docker and Kubernetes (...)

#software-development #software-engineering #web-development

Getting started with #graphql APIs on #heroku
▻https://hackernoon.com/getting-started-with-graphql-apis-on-heroku-fa688ce0a56f?source=rss----3

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The open source Hasura GraphQL Engine gives you high performance GraphQL APIs over #postgres. Deploy it to the Heroku free tier in 30 seconds.Get started with GraphQL in just 30 seconds with Hasura GraphQL Engine on HerokuAt Hasura, we have always been huge fans of Heroku’s git push based deployment workflow. All of our engineers have, at some point, had side projects running with Heroku, and one of our most popular open source projects, Gitkube, brings the Heroku workflow to a Kubernetes cluster.Our aim with the Hasura GraphQL Engine is to help you setup a GraphQL server with the least amount of friction, so that you can start building applications without any setup. With that in mind, we present the Hasura deployment on Heroku’s free tier.30 seconds to GraphQL (...)

#api #react

#rails 5 Imgur Clone Tutorial…Part 2
▻https://hackernoon.com/rails-5-imgur-clone-tutorial-part-2-29b02fadb254?source=rss----3a8144eab

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Rails 5 Imgur CloneWelcome to the second and final part of the Rails 5 Imgur clone, in this part, we will build the image uploading, manage configurations and then deploy to Heroku.Be sure to check out the first part here if you haven’t already.First, signup and verify a new cloudinary account by going here, it’s my referral link to cloudinary which will give me little bit extra space.Let’s start by adding few more variables to our cloudinary configuration at config/initializers/cloudinary.rbRemember, the cloudinary.rb has to exactly in that folder, if you open the config/application.rb you’ll see in the comments written it says the config has to be there, it’s just how rails configuration works.Make sure your cloudinary.rb looks something like this.Cloudinary.config do |config| (...)

#rails-5-imgur #ruby-on-rails #rails-5-imgur-clone #rails-5

#microservices for Startups: An Interview with Ben Curtis of Honeybadger
▻https://hackernoon.com/microservices-for-startups-an-interview-with-ben-curtis-of-honeybadger-f

This interview was done for our Microservices for Startups ebook. Be sure to check it out for practical advice on microservices. Thanks to Ben for his time and input!Ben Curtis is the co-founder of Honeybadger, which handles production monitoring for web developers and offers zero-instrumentation, 360 degree coverage of errors, outages and service degradation.For context, how big is your engineering team? Are you using microservices and can you give a general overview of how you’re using them?Our engineering team is the whole company — three people. We are using a couple of microservices. One processes all the incoming API traffic for errors that are being reported for our customers’ applications. The other handles receiving logplex traffic from Heroku applications, recording errors that are (...)

#ben-curtis-honeybadger #ben-curtis #honey-badger #engineering-team

Setting up node app with #ssl on a #digitalocean droplet
▻https://hackernoon.com/setting-up-node-app-with-ssl-on-a-digitalocean-droplet-1813b6ae7de3?sour

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credit: ▻https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-reasons-why-developers-love-digitalocean-janakiram-msv/You probably Googled it it and are here! Okey, no more time waste (for MYSELF in future)…Let’s see how to setup node app with SSL on a DigitalOcean VPSInstall Heroku for it’s versioning featureGit push the app to HerokuSetup a drop letGenerate SSH keysSetup git bash for SSH-ing to dropletConnect to Droplet using SSH keysInstall nodeConfirm node installation using node -vInstall MongoDB if the app needs to persist dataConfirm if mongodb is running using the command sudo systemctl status mongodbSetup and configure pm2 to orchestrate the node appConfirm pm2 installation using pm2 -vClone to a location in the serverStart the node app for first cut testingStart node app as a processInstall nginxMake sure (...)

#ubuntu #nodejs #linux