The ArgumentsHost class in NestJS is a special class that lets you access the arguments (parameters) of a route handler method. This includes the request, response and other contextual information. Over my time in developing NestJS services, the ArgumentsHost class has come in handy multiple times to improve the exception Read more…
NestJS provides a cool feature where we can create multiple routes with the same NestJS Controller. What’s the use of such a feature? Let’s say you want to change the route name for a particular entity from A to B. However, you also want to keep A endpoint working to Read more…
When you are developing a web application, it’s important to understand what’s going on behind the scenes. Logging plays a critical role in providing insights into your web server’s activities and help you identify issues, monitor performance and ensure that the application runs well. In this post, I will explain Read more…
In a typical web application, there are bound to be multiple routes that you want to expose to the users. In this post, I will explain how you can handle routing in a Go web server. Also, I will show how you can handle URL parameters in a Go web Read more…
Web servers are what makes the online world work and in this tutorial, you’ll dive headfirst into creating your own Go HTTP web server in a step-by-step manner. Go is an extremely versatile programming language. You can do system programming in Go or even create highly interactive web applications. Due Read more…
Go or Golang is truly a next-gen programming language. It has been created by some of the best minds in the world of computing. The great part about Go is that it’s good for beginners as well as experienced programmers. Over the years, many tech companies (including Google) have adopted Read more…
Our applications often need to deal with sensitive information such as credentials or private keys. In a Kubernetes-based system, we can handle such sensitive information using Secrets. In this post, I will explain how you can create a new Kubernetes Secret and use it in an application pod. 1 – Read more…
Over the years, Kubernetes has become the go-to platform for managing containerized applications. However, one big challenge in the container ecosystem is efficiently managing configuration data for applications running on Kubernetes clusters. This is where Kubernetes Config Maps play a key role. Kubernetes Config Maps provides a mechanism for storing Read more…
Joint table ownership in microservices occurs when multiple services perform write operations on the same table. Right off the bat, I’ll make it clear that no one likes joint ownership of tables. A few reasons for this are: However, it’s not always possible to avoid joint table ownership as we Read more…
Jenkins is one of the most popular CI/CD tools out there. In this post, I take you through the step-by-step process of setting up a Jenkins server on Kubernetes. If you are new to Kubernetes, I suggest checking out this introduction to Kubernetes. 1 – Creating a Namespace In Kubernetes, Read more…
