TLDR – you can check out the Spring Cloud Service seed project I made on Github here https://github.com/silentFred/spring-cloud-go-service-seed This seed project enables full communication with Eureka, uses Spring Cloud Config and I implemented
ContinueI have done quite a bit of this and that online, but I have always wanted to sell some physical products – something about getting a product in someone’s hands
ContinueA few months ago I completed the four-week MIT Mutual Gains Approach to Negotiation course along with some of my MIT Bootcamp alumni. https://xpro.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:xPRO+GNx/ Many of us (myself included) feel uncomfortable
ContinueBuilding High Performance Teams is the ultimate goal for many business. But once built, what leadership features need to be in place to sustain its performance for the longer term?
ContinueFiltering specific service routes on Zuul to protect sensitive information like actuator endpoints and internal API documentation You might have some sensitive information endpoints on your services that you absolutely
ContinueMaking Zuul proxy aware of your microservices’ web context root and avoid adding the context on the proxy url Eureka does not support microservice web context roots out of the
ContinueMaking your client-side load-balanced Feign clients using Eureka service discovery aware of your services’ web context…(/eish) Spring Cloud makes life much easier with it’s great cloud native features. Unfortunately it’s
ContinueA quick guide on how to manually setup a fully featured Feign client in Spring Cloud If for whatever reason you need to manually wire up a Feign client that
ContinueSoftware bugs and administering the correct antibiotic. I don’t know how many times I have told myself these words: “Oh hey! If I just tweak this, the error will go away.” Saying
ContinueAt the core of continuous integration lies collaboration and regular additions to the mainline code stream. I believe the first step in getting ready for CI is to make sure you
ContinueContinuous integration for front-end code has become such an important part of my flow that I can’t think how teams survive without it. In this blog series I’d like to
ContinueSo I have been sitting with this silly yet very sticky piece of malware on wordpress sites. It’s an attack whereby arbitrary code can be executed on your wordpress instance
ContinueLets talk code quality. More specifically, variable localisation/ proximity. It goes without saying that if you group things together it gives your mind a break from dealing with too much
ContinueLet’s cut to the chase. Developing anything that sends out email is a mess, so stop spamming yourself and start using MailCatcher. To make things as easy as possible, use
ContinueTLDR; Keep nesting low, avoid using else branches, have fun reading code instead of trying to understand it. “A nest is a structure built by animal(s) to hold its eggs, its offspring, or
ContinueA couple of friends and I are on the verge of releasing a long overdue EP for our band, Blessed Are The Meek. I joined the band a few years
ContinueWho am I? Hello, I’m Fred. I’m a software engineer, muso and bonsai collector from Pretoria, South Africa. I’m a bit of a code junkie and spend most of my
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