Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 18 December 2020 in Data Science • Tagged with datascience, python • 4 min read
It's quite clear in today's age that the biggest companies in the world, make most of their profits from harvesting and productionalising their user's data. With privacy becoming more and more of a concern in everyday life as we become more connected, it's almost becoming a human right for our …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 11 December 2020 in Software • Tagged with Software, javascript • 4 min read
This post is going to go into how to upload and release a Cordova app on both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. Cordova is an open source framework that wraps HTML/Javascript apps into a native container which can access the device's functionality, akin to a …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 04 December 2020 in Software • Tagged with software • 3 min read
We've gone through how to use Docker to help develop our web applications, now we want to be able to deploy them out in the wild. Let's use Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk to do this. Note that there is a free tier of AWS that we can make …
Posted by Jack McKew on Thu 26 November 2020 in Software • Tagged with software • 4 min read
Following on with previous posts on this blog. This post will be going through how to deploy our fibonacci application we previously built in a Kubernetes cluster. To reiterate we will be using the following technologies:
| Technology | Use |
|---|---|
| Docker | Docker will be used to containerization of the services inside our … |
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 20 November 2020 in Software • Tagged with software • 5 min read
Following on with previous posts on this blog. This post will be going through how to develop & later on deploy our fibonacci application we previously built in a multi-container context. To reiterate we will be using the following technologies:
| Technology | Use |
|---|---|
| Docker | Docker will be used to containerization of the … |
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 13 November 2020 in Software • Tagged with software • 4 min read
Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. We use Kubernetes as a platform for orchestrating multiple Docker containers for our application, and enables us to scale our application easily.
Kubernetes is managed via a master node, and …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 06 November 2020 in Software • Tagged with software • 12 min read
Following on with previous posts on this blog. This post will be going through how to develop & deploy a multi-container application, our application (albeit basic) will allow users to input a number which will correspond to the index in the Fibonacci sequence, and our application will respond with the computed …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 30 October 2020 in Software • Tagged with software • 4 min read
This post is intended to work through setting up a workflow with Docker. In particular, we will be setting up a production workflow for a web app. For this web app, we will need a workflow which supports:
We also want to be able to come back …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 23 October 2020 in Software • Tagged with software • 6 min read
What is docker? Docker is a platform for running software that is agnostic to the operating system it runs on. This is extremely useful around solving the 'But it works on my machine' problem. This post will go through an intro to docker and how you can use it. A …
Posted by Jack McKew on Fri 16 October 2020 in Python • Tagged with python, software-development • 4 min read
Building software can be challenging, but maintaining it after that initial build can be even moreso. Being able to test the software such that it verifies the software behaves as expected is crucial in building robust software applications that users depend upon, being able to automate this testing is even …