How to Configure Better Web Site Security with Cloudflare and Netlify
Working in the security industry and having an insecure site looks super bad. So imagine how I felt after discovering that the security report for my brand new personal site sucked: To fix this, I decided to improve my security score. I’m sharing my findings and solutions here so you can improve your site security too. This is good not only for improving your site security, but also to improve your SEO performance on Google....
Build a REST API with ASP.NET Core 2.2
ASP.NET Core is entirely open source, free, has built-in DI and logging, works smoothly with a fantastic ORM and has tons of built-in features within Web API framework, and on top of that you get Microsoft support for free, maturity and flexibility of C# and ASP.NET, it’s evident that ASP.NET Core is easily one of the best picks for building REST APIs. Lots of folks keep a daily journal that is essentially a detailed log...
Build an iOS App with React Native and Publish it to the App Store
Apple’s App Store is the holy grail for mobile developers. With React Native you can develop native apps for Android and iOS using a single code-base but getting things ready for publishing can be tricky, especially if you are starting with an originally Android-only application. Here you’ll be starting with the code from a previous monster Okta blog post designing and publishing a calculator-like app on the Android Play store, which includes authentication via Okta....
Better, Faster, Lighter Java with Java 12 and JHipster 6
There’s a lot going on in the Java ecosystem lately. Now that major Java versions are released every six months, it can be difficult to keep up. Personally, I develop the majority of my Java applications using Spring Boot. Because of this, I was stuck on Java 8 until Spring Boot 2.1 was released last October. Spring Boot 2.1 added Java 11 support, along with performance improvements, a new metrics implementation, new actuator endpoints, and...
Build a CRUD App with ASP.NET Core 2.2 and Entity Framework Core
If you’re like me, you love music. Music is always streaming somewhere in my house at all times. I especially like going to see live music, but it can be hard to know where and when live music is happening. LiveMusicFinder is a web application that allows users to enter when and where some live music is going down. This beta version is very rough, but I will show you how I built it with...
Build a Microservice Architecture with Spring Boot and Kubernetes
In this tutorial, you’re going to use Kubernetes to deploy a Spring Boot microservice architecture to Google Cloud, specifically the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You’re also going to use Istio to create a service mesh layer and to create a public gateway. The whole thing is going to be secured using Okta OAuth JWT authentication. That was a mess of jargon. We’re not going to explain microservices in-depth here. In short, microservices are a design...
Test Your Spring Boot Applications with JUnit 5
In this post, you’ll walk through how to build a simple Spring Boot application and test it with Junit 5. An application without testing is the proverbial Pandora’s Box. What good is your application if you don’t know that it will work under any condition? Adding a suite of tests builds confidence that your application can handle anything thrown at it. When building your tests, it is important to use a modern and comprehensive suite...
Build a REST API with Node and Postgres
If you haven’t heard of PostgreSQL (often called Postgres), today’s your lucky day. It’s a robust, open source relational database that powers some of the world’s largest applications. In this post, I’ll show you how to create a REST API in Node that uses Postgres as a data store. I’ll walk you through setting everything up, so if you’re not familiar with Postgres, don’t worry. Specifically, I’m going to walk you through building an API...
Build a CRUD App with ASP.NET Core and TypeScript
There are a lot of things for .NET developers to love about TypeScript. It has strong typing that .NET Developers are used to and the ability to use the latest JavaScript features. Since it is just a superset of JavaScript, the cost to switch is almost nothing. Getting Visual Studio to transpile the TypeScript when it builds your ASP.NET Core app is pretty simple as well. In this tutorial, you will build an ASP.NET Core...
Visual Studio 2019 Tips and Tricks
Microsoft recently released the preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows, and it’s got lots of improvements and features! After reading the release notes, I reached out to Allison Buchholtz-Au and Kendra Havens on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft to get an idea of what features should be configured immediately after downloading and installing this shiny new IDE. After they showed me a couple of quick tips, VS 2019 started to feel like the...