Technological and coding misadventures!
Recently I did a series for New Relic on three frameworks, both for APIs and web apps. I titled it “Evaluating Node.js Frameworks: hapi.js, Restify, and Geddy” and it is available via the New Relic Blog. To check out those frameworks give that blog entry a read, then below I’ve added one more framework to... Continue reading
I’ve gotten a ton of 502 errors and related issues that crop up when deploying the Beanstalk. One of the issues that cropped up a few times recently, until I stumbled into a working solution was the 502 NGINX error. I went digging around and ended up just trying to deploy a default, fresh from... Continue reading
First context, then I’ll dive in. Orchestrate http://orchestrate.io/ Orchestrate is a service that provides a simple API to access a multitude of database types all in one location. Key value, graph or events, some of the database types I’ve been using, are but a few they’ve already made available. There are many more on the... Continue reading
Even though it isn’t in the primary trunk of code for the ‘passport-http’ Passport.js Strategy, I’ve upgraded the packages.json and app.js file for the basic username and passport authentication to Express.js v4. If you’re using Express.js and are looking to migrate to v4 from v3 or earlier a great starting place is to check out... Continue reading
There’s more than a few ways to configure node.js applications. I’ll discuss a few of them in this blog entry, so without mincing work, to configuring apps! Solution #1: Build Your Own Configuration Often this is a super easy solution when an application just needs a single simple configuration. Here’s an example I found that’s... Continue reading
