A blog about my coding adventures
Postgres: Modern, Capable, Scalable, Extensible and Fun. A bona fide slam dunk in my opinion, proper like Hallelujah. Now, do me a favor here, okay, and just allow me to get a little bit excited here, because I’ve lived through the crappy days and I think I deserve the chance to go a little bit … Read more
The web has evolved. Finally, testing has too. They really meant it. I was looking for a simple, easy to use and initiative end-to-end testing framework for one of our web application. I tried out cypress for the first time and found myself productive within about 10 mins. Before we go deep into the details … Read more
Node RED is powerful, extensible, graphical programming environment. It’s a flow based modelling tool which make it easy to create event-driven applications in a simple & intuitive ways. Its built on top of NodeJS and provides a browser based editor for wiring flows together. Node RED development environment is actually a web page running on … Read more
I think you will agree that Internet of things is pretty ambiguous. Any phrase with the word “things” in it is inevitably somewhat ambiguous, right? One of those is “computation that is no longer limited to devices with screens, its far more pervasive, it assumes an eventual connection to the cloud and it integrates into … Read more
An electric circuit is by definition is an arrangement of electrical components connected so that there is some form of current flow. I am assuming you are aware of basics of electronics, so I will keep the discussion about those short and focused. The intention of this post is to laydown the foundation which will … Read more
Over the years I have been in various discussions regarding clean architecture and I think on some degree most of us are aligned on the reasons behind it. However, having a clean architecture or code-base not only makes your development team happier, but it has far reaching impact on business itself. In this blog post … Read more
Think of it this way, you started watching a movie on your TV at home. You got 30 minutes into it and had to leave. While you were gone, you were able to use your phone to watch another 15 minutes from where you left off. so now you are at minute 45 in the … Read more
Raspberry Pi is a general purpose inexpensive computing platform. It is powerful, easy to setup and fun to work with. It is being used in many places and in this post I will show you have to set it up easily. Getting Started Buy Raspberry Pi (I purchased Raspberry Pi 3 Model B from amazon, … Read more
What is MQTT A message protocol with “a small code footprint and on-the-wire footprint” . MQTT is a publish-subscribe-based messaging protocol. On top of TCP/IP. Requires a broker (e.g. mosquito, hivemq, azure IO Hub). ISO standard (ISO/IEC PRF 20922). A message bus for: unreliable, high latency, low bandwidth Payload with a plain byte array. MQTT … Read more
