HTML 5 routes & deep links with Apache

Published at April 14, 2019 ·  3 min read

HTML5 client routing Deep links to client side applications using frameworks that make use of HTML5 routing, such as Angular, can be problematic. The web browser client side application utilizes regular URL paths for client side application navigation that appear in the browser address to be locations of actual resources. This however is not the case, the running application in the browser makes use of javascript pushstate to navigate to states within the client side application and does not request the resource shown in the browser address bar when running....

Growing Frozen Particle Waves

Published at November 11, 2018 ·  1 min read

Growing Frozen Particle Waves I recently added docker support to Frozen Particle Waves. If you are looking for an OSS project where you can contribute to this is a great option. It isn’t finished so you have a great base to contribute updates and exhibit your skills. Some additions and updates that you can help with: Add a storage system and services to add users and cameras. Separate the UI into a more up to date framework such as Angular....

Process Slaughterhouse

Published at October 5, 2018 ·  3 min read

Cattle not pets If you are running a stateless scale out application the cattle not pets mantra will be stuck in your thoughts. Sick processes and whole container environments that misbehave are taken out back of the server and executed. For the benefit of those handling on call support and for immediate recovery the easy button is great. However, it ignores the real problem. If you had a leaky roof the long term solution is not get more buckets to catch the water....

Introducing Frozen Particle Waves

Published at September 1, 2018 ·  2 min read

Frozen Particle Waves Frozen Particle Waves is a project I started to learn and demonstrate the use of a Spring Boot server app with an Angular client side UI. Currently it can be used to aggregate images from webcams that expose images through http endpoints and also supports basic auth. It uses Spring Boot as the application server to provide REST endpoints to the client side Angular UI. Spring security is used to secure the endpoints and handle user authn/authz....