So, we want to build a "serverless" application on AWS. We have configured Amazon's "API Gateway" to invoke Lambda functions when accessing certain URLs, and the lambda functions access back-ends like DynamoDB. So far so good. But we don't want to be breaking the application every time …
Posted Sun 02 July 2017 by mcherm in Programming
As I sometimes do, now that I have finished doing my own research on the candidates and the issues, I will write down my thoughts to endorse the candidates and to share the results of my research. In this case …
Question: When building RESTful APIs, do you know of any standard patterns for handling long running API calls? Our decision process may take as much as a couple of minutes.
My Answer: I know of four possible approaches:
Posted Thu 20 April 2017 by mcherm in Programming
Question: I hearing about COBOL being used in banks quite often but all my friends who actually working there say Java and Oracle and all related job adverts I have seen so far were Java or C++. Could someone please provide some relevant facts?
My Answer …
Posted Mon 30 January 2017 by mcherm in Programming
I've been doing a lot of work lately on moving to the cloud. A couple of years ago we started using AWS and our first move was a "lift-and-shift": we just re-created at AWS the same servers we had previously in our data center. Two years …
Posted Sat 07 January 2017 by mcherm in Programming