React Redux Service for Google Analytics Tracking
This post shows goes over creating a service for use by a React Redux app that adds transactions to Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking. It is meant »
Elasticsearch Cluster with Docker Engine Swarm Mode
In the previous article Elasticsearch 2.3 cluster with Docker, I wrote about how to deploy a cluster using Docker. In this article, I'll walk you »
AWS Step Functions with Serverless
Step Functions were introduced a month ago at the 2016 re:Invent conference. They offer a way to string together Lambda functions via a number of »
HTTP GET Requests with Node
This series of posts catalogs basic functions in Node via the built-in APIs. There are many libraries that provide syntactic sugar over these functions. However, it's »
Exposing Private ECR Images to External Users
Amazon's Elastic Container Repository (ECR) allows you to push and pull images to a private repository inside your AWS account. This is extremely useful for private »
Docker and ASP.NET Core MVC Applications
I was messing around with ASP.NET Core 1.1 MVC today and wanted to see how easy it would be to deploy an application into »
Nomad and Consul Configuration Overview
There are several challenges to configuring Consul/Nomad environments. This page documents some of those issues and configurations I've managed to get working. The largest challenge »
Deploying Ghost with Docker and Amazon ECS
This blog runs on Ghost. I like Ghost quite a bit. Sadly, I was often remiss in updating to the latest version. This weekend I finally »
Query on string length in MongoDB
If you need to query on string length, you will need to use the $where operator. As per the documentation, you can pass either a string »
Node multipart/form-data Explained
I was recently working on a project that involved sending large amounts of data through a series of HTTP based web service. After running through various »
Increase request timeout for Express Apps
In working on a Node.js microservice that had some long-running queries, I needed a way to increase the request timeout for the Express application. This »
Service-to-service Google API calls with Node
I'm going to walk you through the steps needed to make a service-to-service request from Google API. In this example, I wanted to read Google Product »
Bulk Insert into Temp Tables with node-mssql
One of the fastest pattersn for pushing data into MSSQL that we've found is using bulk copy. The process we use is bulk copy to push »
One Year Challenge
A little over a year ago I found a new obsession. A nerdy obsession. One that would change the course of the past year. Strangely enough »
Persist state after reducers execute with Redux
Lets consider a situation where we want to trigger an asynchronous operation AFTER a reducer fires. How might we go about it? There are a few »
Elasticsearch 2.3 cluster with Docker
This is a guide for starting a multi-node Elasticsearch 2.3 cluster from Docker containers residing on different hosts. This is not a guide for creating »
Trigger a sub-component event with Enzyme
I was struggling to get sub-component interactions nailed down and figured out a few ways to propagate your sub-component interactions with Enzyme. In my scenario, I »
Flux to Redux: Convert Container Components
In the previous articles we discussed converting Actions and Stores into Reducers. In this article, we'll discuss converting a Flux Container component into a Redux Container »
Flux to Redux: Converting Stores to Reducers
In the previous post we converted Flux actions to Redux action creators. The next part will discuss converting stores into reducers. Stores are more complicated, but »
Flux to Redux: Converting Action Creators
This is the first part in a series of tutorials showing how to convert Flux code to Redux. I find it easiest to start by converting »