Giles WilliamsinUrban Massage ProductA smaller Docker image for Node.jshttps://hub.docker.com/r/urbanmassage/node/Jul 7, 2017Jul 7, 2017
Giles WilliamsinUrban Massage ProductEvent-based architecture and why it’s essential for startupsNow, what do I mean by event based architecture? The easiest analogy for most developers these days is the publish-subscribe model.Sep 14, 2015Sep 14, 2015
Giles WilliamsinUrban Massage ProductFlightControl — Logging and instrumentation for multi-tiered appsBefore we get started, let me just say — multi-tiered / microservice architecture is great. It gives you great freedom to work on small…Jun 27, 2015Jun 27, 2015
Giles WilliamsinUrban Massage ProductFrom a monolith to micro-services (part 1)When writing the first version of Urban Massage, we followed the standard agile approach when starting a new project — build a big app that…Mar 27, 2015Mar 27, 2015
Giles WilliamsinUrban Massage ProductGrouped key expiry with redisAs I’ll be covering in a later article, our booking process is like no other in the industry — upon entering a postcode on our system, we…Dec 7, 2014Dec 7, 2014
Giles WilliamsinUrban Massage ProductReplicating a Heroku-centric workflow within AWSWe chose to host the majority of our platform on Heroku from day one having used it for previous projects — for a small team at small-ish…Nov 24, 2014Nov 24, 2014