https://hub.docker.com/r/urbanmassage/node/
Here at Urban Massage, we use Docker to containerise + deploy all of our websites & services.
The majority of our apps are written in Node.js, and like a lot of other…
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Now, what do I mean by event based architecture? The easiest analogy for most developers these days is the publish-subscribe model.
Before we get started, let me just say — multi-tiered / microservice architecture is great. It gives you great freedom to work on small features in isolation, building up to large feature sets without having the…
When writing the first version of Urban Massage, we followed the standard agile approach when starting a new project — build a big app that can do everything you need — but at the same time make sure that you encapsulate in a way that you can easily split…
As 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 parallel process a huge combination of travel permutations in order to make sure that every therapist gets to each appointment on time…
We 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 scale, deploying maybe 10 times a day, there couldn’t be a better solution.