Manage test dependencies with Go

Introduction

I’m working on the upstream fabric8-wit project of openshift.io. In this Go project, we embrace testing as best we can in order to deliver a stable component. Testing acts as our safety net to allow for fast-paced feature development. This blog post is about our recent change in our testing strategy. It is not as boring as it might sound at first. 😉

Continue reading “Manage test dependencies with Go”

Share

Using New Relic in Red Hat Mobile Node.js Applications

Introduction

New Relic is an application-monitoring platform that provides in-depth analytics and analysis for applications regardless of the type of environment where they are deployed, or as New Relic put it themselves:

“Gain end-to-end visibility across your customer experience, application performance, and dynamic infrastructure with the New Relic Digital Intelligence Platform.” – New Relic

You might ask why there’s a use for New Relic’s monitoring capabilities when Red Hat Mobile Application Platform (RHMAP) and OpenShift Container Platform both offer insights into the CPU, Disk, Memory, and general resource utilization of your server-side applications. While these generic resource reports are valuable, they might not offer the detail required to debug a specific issue. Since New Relic is built as an analytics platform from the ground up it is capable of providing unique insights into the specific runtime of your applications. For example, the JavaScript code deployed in Node.js applications is run using the V8 JavaScript engine which has a life-cycle that can have a significant impact on the performance of your application depending on how you’ve written it. Utilizing New Relic’s Node.js module provides a real-time view of V8 engine performance and how they might be affecting the performance of your production application. By using this data, you can refine your application code to reduce memory usage, which in turn can free CPU resources due to less frequent garbage collections. Neat!

Continue reading “Using New Relic in Red Hat Mobile Node.js Applications”

Share

Know how RESTful your API is: An Overview of the Richardson Maturity Model

Most of the time, I see developers are confused about the term REST. For some enterprise application developers, the meaning of REST is JSON i.e. if they are using JSON in their application, which means they working on REST, which is not true to some extent. Let’s take a look what exactly a REST API is.

Continue reading “Know how RESTful your API is: An Overview of the Richardson Maturity Model”

Share

Red Hat to sponsor .NET Conf virtual conference – Sept 19-21

I am pleased to share that Red Hat is a co-sponsor of .NET Conf this year!

.NET Conf September 19-21

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY:  .NET Conf is a free, ​live streamed, 3-day virtual developer event organized by the .NET community. Learn to build for web, mobile, desktop, games, services, libraries and more for a variety of platforms and devices all with .NET. Save the date and tune in!

Continue reading “Red Hat to sponsor .NET Conf virtual conference – Sept 19-21”

Share