Akka gRPC with Let’s Encrypt
The Electric Frontier Foundation (EFF) has recommendations about encrypting the web; there is no reason to be running servers over unencrypted HTTP any long...
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TradeAudit Mobile App Infrastructure
The release of the TradeAudit mobile app is almost here. It is currently in MVP stage, but its infrastructure is a pretty typical cloud based deployment. Th...
Lit Custom Components for SVG generation
SVG markup is very similar to HTML, and the Lit Web Components library can be used to not only generate HTML custom components, but also manipulate SVG in a ...
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) Domains on Github Pages
Github Pages is free hosting for static content webpages, and a cost effective way to publish micro-sites for all of your projects. Can it handle custom dom...
JVM versus Python for AWS Lambda Functions
The suitability of programming languages across different domains is a contested topic. AWS Lambda Functions are a serverless solution that can be used for ...
Scala 3 and AWS Lambda Functions
AWS Lambda offer the ability to run code functions without a server. Basically standalone functions that receive JSON as a parameter and have up to 15 minute...
Downloading from Github Packages using HTTP and Maven
Github Packages is a Maven compatible respository and is accessible independent of Github. This article expands on alternative access to these files, such as...
Scala (SBT) Publishing to Github Packages
Github Packages is a natural extension of a CI/CD pipeline created in Github Action. It currently offers repositories for Java (Maven), .Net (NuGet), Ruby (G...
Emoji Progress Bar for SaaS Integrations
The command line progress bar was the first step towards graphical UI. It was an exciting addition to a numerical percent ticking away as a running task too...
Is Javascript Replacing HTML?
Over time there has been an ebb and flow to the ratio of Javascript:HTML used in websites. What motivates the change, and where is this ratio ultimately head...
Reactive Front-End with Web Components
The Reactive Manifesto puts together the ideal architecture for today’s system infrastructure, designed to cope with the ever increasing need for performan...
DOM Manipulation using Web Components
HTML elements are free to change the style, size, and placement of their children, and even their order. A lot of advanced use cases define rendering based...