Software Architecture and Development
Domain Driven Design (DDD) is one of the pillars of object oriented software development. You must understand it really well if you want to produce future proof code and designs. Despite it looks intimidating to most developers, the concepts of DDD are really straight-forward and to some extent based on some principles that can be … Read more
In this article, we will explain what are REST APIs, also known are RESTful APIs, and how we can design them and implement them quickly. What is an API? First we need to define what an API is. An API is a contract between a provider and a user that allows them to exchange information. … Read more
One of the advantages of using Docker images is that they are portable. However, portability is directly related to the size. A mobile phone wouldn’t be really “mobile” if it weighed 10 Kg. The same applies to Docker images. We want our containers to be as slim as possible. In this tutorial, I show you … Read more
Immutable Kubernetes Pods are absolutely necessary if you are deploying your applications in a containerized environments and you want them to be secure. Despite this, most developers and teams do not use immutable pods. In this tutorial, I will explain in a simple manner what they are and why they are important. We will also … Read more
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and learn the basics of Kubernetes in just 10 minutes. We will be using a super-lightweight certified distribution of Kubernetes: MicroK8s by Canonical. This distribution requires very little resources and can run on Linux, Windows and macOS. For the purpose of this tutorial, I will … Read more
In this tutorial, we install the latest version of Maven on Ubuntu 22.04. Unfortunately, the Ubuntu repository ships an old version of Maven which is not compatible with the recent versions of the Java Development Kit (JDK). We will proceed with the manual installation. Pre-requisites Before proceeding with the Maven installation, we need to have … Read more
The OpenJDK Docker image (openjdk) has been deprecated, thus you need to immediately migrate to another distribution if you wish to receive feature and security updates. The Eclipse Temurin are a set of Java JDKs offered by Adoptium. In this article, I show you how to install Temurin on different distribution such as Debian, Ubuntu … Read more
Kubernetes is hands down the most disruptive technology that we have seen in the IT industry in recent years. It is loved by software developers, operators, and business owners. It is pure expression of what DevOps means from a technical perspective. Holding a Kubernetes certification is something I strongly advice to any serious IT practitioner. … Read more
This is a very simple and short tutorial which helps you configure your NGINX Ingress on microk8s. A common use case is enabling the use-forwarded-headers flag so that NGINX passes incoming X-Forwarded-* headers to upstreams. Verify Addon Presence Let’s verify that the our ingress addon is enabled and running with the following commands. We wait … Read more
Centralized Log Management is an essential solution for modern software development, especially when utilizing cloud native technologies. In Kubernetes, your application runs in pods which are relatively ephemeral i.e., disposable entities. Trailing the logs of pods is simply a nightmare and in general a very bad idea. A better approach is to persist all logs … Read more
