Blogging about random technologies
In a world where Hibernate is very popular, JDBI comes as a pleasant alternative. It gives you full control of the queries and provides a useful abstraction of the entities. Unfortunately, Spring and JDBI don't integrate so well. I thought that it would be something quite easy to do, but I spent more time than... Continue Reading →
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a container management service used to make it easier to install and operate Docker containers on AWS. It is designed to be highly scalable and to have high performance as well. As other services provided by Amazon, such as RDS, ECS handles fault-tolerance by itself, which means we don’t... Continue Reading →
Direct Connect Some companies might need to transfer data from their data centers to AWS. Using a normal internet connection can raise some problems: Internet-based connections might be inconsistent over time: there is no guarantee that data transferred from point A to point B will not change the routing. Real-time applications might not behave as... Continue Reading →
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) allows us to define our virtual network inside the cloud. To properly use EC2 instances we must have a VPC configured. AWS already comes with one by default, allowing users to launch an EC2 instance without having to configure anything else. It comes with internet access enabled, which makes possible... Continue Reading →
The AWS Relational Database Service, best known as RDS, is a service made to operate and scale relational databases in the cloud. As we saw in the last post an EC2 instance is a virtual machine on the cloud and can host any application the user wants to. When we’re thinking about databases on the... Continue Reading →
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the cloud. EC2 is one of the most used services inside AWS, enabling its users to eliminate the upfront cost that comes in acquiring hardware. Running virtual environments, known as instances inside of EC2, is the equivalent of having an actual hardware, with the advantage... Continue Reading →
Amazon Simple Storage Service, better known as S3, is a service on AWS to store data on the internet. Buckets Buckets are the containers to store data on S3. They can be viewed as a root “folder” responsible for store every object data that is uploaded. Buckets are useful to easily identify accounts storage usage,... Continue Reading →
IAM, abbreviation to Identity & Access Management, is the service used to create new accounts and manage authorization on AWS resources. It is considered a global service inside AWS, which means that changes made inside IAM will be available in all regions at the same time. To manage what a user can or cannot do... Continue Reading →
We’ve reached the final part! So far we have an app that register the user and allows him to type messages, but we can’t sent this messages to anybody. In this last part we’ll create a server, which will be responsible for collect these messages and spread them across every person who has our app... Continue Reading →
In the first part we set up our environment and made a simple page which displays a label to make sure everything was working fine. In this part we’ll start to build the components of our chat. Right now we have the following folder structure: chat-app — app — boot.ts — chat-app.component.ts — bower_components —... Continue Reading →
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