There was a problem on a server we did not control. It was managed by a third party and we only got a service account. Since things were down and I did not have full root access I got a bit annoyed waiting for them to respond back.
I decided to take matters into my own hands.
You cannot really tell from this site, as I chose not to use date timestamps on the articles, but I have not written an article in quite some time. I underwent therapy and dealt with a higher than normal workload for quite some time.
The other day I realised there is no real good way to share the same DTO models between your backend and your frontend even though that is the common code they need. Let us say an endpoint returns a simple representation of a user like a profile. That profile is needed to be displayed in the frontend again as well. Now if you code in full JavaScript you might get away with just accessing the properties or keys as you might just work with the JSON directly. However as things stand now, there is more and more TypeScript and therefore you need to redefine the same DTO in the frontend now before you can use it.
Today there was a big outage on GitHub, that happens sometimes. Nothing you can do about that. However therefore CircleCI was also experiencing outages. I imagine more services rely in this way on GitHub, not to mention it is the one central pool of knowledge for what is effectively the modern civilisation.
I started a project recently using Spring WebFlux which is based upon Project Reactor. I chose this one because it was new and I thought for the client it would suit the best as a lot of data was involved.
So this will hopefully convey the message on how to model your code in order to have things done in a nicer way.
This article concerns Web Components, Mozilla, Google and something GitHub created called Catalyst touching on ideas and that sometimes pride can get in the way of good things.
Back in the day of mainframes and the like, there was a need for a technician that did maintenance on the computers in question. Just like you have need for mechanics that do the maintenance and the fixing of your automobiles. This grew out into a full time position called system administrator or sysadmin. So then came the containerised era and the whole DevOps movement.
We all know scope creep. The fact that we always build more and more features just to get new stuff in. This excruciatingly painful marketing trend of just wanting to have something that is new otherwise you are stale and stagnant.