In today’s post, I explore a crucial aspect of managing AWS infrastructure with CloudFormation: the safe deployment of changes. I take a closer look at a feature known as change sets, which empowers you to thoroughly review alterations before applying them. Furthermore, I expand on automation of change reviews and contrast it with a different approach using Terraform.
In this blog post, I delve into my personal perspective on the cost implications of harnessing serverless capabilities. Crafting a project from the ground up on Google Cloud Platform allowed me to gain insights worthwhile sharing. This article focuses on DataFlow as a streaming engine, Bigtable, a scalable database, as well as Cloud Functions. Join me as I explain some of the trickier tradeoffs, exploring not only the financial cost but also whether the technology delivers on the promise of increased efficiency.
While designing of the Endpoints API is fairly straightforward, there are gotchas one might stumble upon. Especially when task at hand is slightly more involved than the proverbial “hello world” example. It took several iterations in my tiny little project to adjust the API according to my needs. Don’t get Read more…
Conscious about REST? Then you want to have control over HTTP methods associated with your API calls. Should you choose not to use @ApiMethod, Endpoints falls back to an educated guess approach based on the API method name, as stated in the docs. I couldn’t find much details about how Read more…
The title says it all, one cannot make use of method overloading when working with Endpoints. Not a big deal one might think. Well, as usual, it depends. To me, method overloading is a feature I appreciate, since it allows for a great naming consistency and promotes polymorphism, one of Read more…
One of the early frustrations I had with Endpoints were run-time exceptions. Turns out, regardless of what the culprit is, the dev server (jetty 6) wouldn’t reveal much details of what exactly went wrong. Whatever the problem bet the server fails with java.io.IOException: Failed to retrieve API configs with status: 500. Read more…