GraphQL stitching increases developer agility and productivity — Background In a recent article Exploring Tokens with Stellar I mentioned in passing how the usage of GraphQL stitching in our approach to building out our solution. To understand how we addressed this in a simple and elegant manner, I will first share the overall topology of our solution. Author note…

In a recent article Exploring Tokens with Stellar I mentioned in passing how we enhanced some of the Stellar data objects with additional context when we created our GraphQL schemas. This approach provided a great deal of flexibility in defining our data models. …

Creating a unique user experience for exchanging digital tokens — Overview During the past few months, my team has been experimenting with how to simplify the process of issuing and managing asset-backed tokens. To accelerate our delivery schedule, we standardized on Stellar for the network and defined an experience around this platform. …

The past few weeks I have really been recounting my career and where the industry is trending with regards to recruiting strong senior technical candidates. I spent some time in December writing about some of the roadblocks that I have personally encountered and how I attacked them head on. If…

How do senior tech leaders remain technical? Every winter break, I find myself looking to evaluate and/or go deeper in a technology that I want to better understand heading into the new year. …

How GitOps with Travis-CI accelerates deployments to production — Background I am very excited to announce that I recently joined a new incubator project. The start of an incubator brings new challenges and opportunities to explore new technologies and approaches that have gained traction in the industry. If there is one thing I have learned from past incubators, it is…

Background Late in 2017, my talk about Istio was chosen as one of the topics for Index Developer Conference in San Francisco. Since most presentations for Istio focus on microservices and how to efficiently route http traffic between the various microservices, I wanted to expand the conversation to more than…

Learn how to configure access logging for your Node.js express applications — Overview Skill Level: Beginner Some basic understanding of Kubernetes and deploying resources In this recipe, I demonstrate how to enable access logging in IBM Cloud Private using the built in Ingress. This recipe will teach you how to deploy an Ingress routing requests to a Node.js application based upon Express. Ingredients

Learn how awesome jq is when writing simple bash scripts to wreak havoc on your deployments — Overview Skill Level: Beginner Some basic understanding of shell scripting and Kubernetes. In this recipe, I demonstrate how to connect to IBM Cloud Private and configure a Chaos Monkey script. …