In this 5th instalment of my “Node JS Performance Optimizations” series, I show you how to increase Node JS performance with thread pool management. We achieve this by understanding how Libuv works, how the thread pool works and how to configure the number of threads based on your machine specs. […]
Have you developed or are you in the process of creating an API Server that will be used on a production or cloud environment? In this 4th instalment of my Node JS Performance Optimizations series, I show you how to test the availability of your API Server, so that you […]
In this first video of my Node JS Performance Optimizations series, I show you how to level up you Node JS skills by managing the Event Loop phases the right way. I provide simple, yet in depth explanations and examples of how the Event Loop works as well as how […]
I’m not too sure how long this has been around in Postman, but I accidentally stumbled upon this yesterday and thought to blog about it. After executing a 3rd party’s REST API in Postman, I noticed it took surprisingly long to run (about 40 seconds). This confused me, as the […]
This is a first of many videos that I will be publishing over the next few weeks on creating chatbots using the Bot Framework from Microsoft. What is the Bot Framework? The Microsoft Bot Framework is a powerful set of services, tools, and SDKs that provides a rich foundation or “framework” for […]
As it usually is in the 1st quarter of a new year, technology predictions and forecasts fly around the social streams. I’ve decided to join on this venture and provide some transparency on which technologies I’m currently using, as well as what I would recommend one invests in for near […]
I was recently tasked to deploy a set of Docker containers to a Kubernetes cluster running on Microsoft Azure. I’ve done this a few times in the past, but this particular deployment required some additional configurations including PVC and Config Maps, which I had not yet done on the Azure […]
This is my 3rd session at IBM Think in Las Vegas in March. It’s not really a session, but rather an interactive panel where me and 2 of my IBM Champion colleagues will engage with the audience to discuss Notes and Domino in the context of client success stories. I will be […]
Join myself and Paul Withers at IBM Think in Las Vegas for a breathtaking approach to incorporating IBM Notes and Domino into a Microservices ecosystem. This session is filled with awesome demos of integrating technologies including Web Sockets, Kubernetes, Docker, ReactJS, Node-RED and more. IMPORTANT: Our approaches in this session […]
In my previous article, I provided a high level overview of Containerization and how it compares to Virtualization. In this article I want to introduce an extremely powerful platform by the name of Kubernetes. By now, we should have a fair grasp on Containerization and Microservices. We are but one […]
