65. Deploying a custom java server to the cloud!
In this post we explore how Terraform was used to deploy the application to the cloud. The cloud of choice was Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb This is mainly because I will be…
37. How to connect your Java Micronaut/SpringBoot with Kafka SASL
Part of the MMO journey, we need to make sure that we use scalable web systems. One thing we can do, is make our server event driven. Concept is to…
22. How to achieve simple and reliable authentication? part 2
Previous chapter showed how to implement Rails with AWS Cognito. This chapter will focus on how you can communicate with your backend for authentication purposes. Note that there are many…
21. How to achieve simple and reliable authentication?
Follow part 2, which shows how you connect your React/Javascript front end to endpoints covered here. First of all, log into your AWS account and navigate to Cognito: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cognito/home You…
21. Easy authentication with Rails and Devise
I am at a stage of the website where I require some authentication - in my case, to create content on the website, i.e. to make posts, I will require…
20. How to make an awesome UI using React and a template
In some of the previous posts, we covered getting started with Material UI from scratch and also deploying those UI / Backend pieces. In this post, we will cover creating…
19. Simple steps to get server-less front end with S3 bucket
So on my journey to learn more about re-platforming and micro-services I came across that you could actually 'host' your react front-end application in an s3 bucket. That's pretty cool,…
17. Re-Platforming for Improved Performance: Migrating from Rails to Microservices
We looked at deploying your application such as Ruby on Rails with Heroku. Now we may explore things like server-less design. Re-platforming is a big topic and a large undertaking.…
18. Simple steps to making site secure with SSL and Heroku
We already deployed our RoR app to Heroku in this post. Let's set up SSL with Heroku and our Rails application. I've actually wasted several hours sorting out SSL manually,…
15. Fast and easy way to optimise your Rails DB queries and Active Storage
This post is an extension to previous Active Storage post covered in section 7. Here we will look at an advanced query and fine tuning it to remove N+1 queries…