In this hello-world style blog post, we will learn how to create load balanced Docker services in an open source DC/OS & Mesos environment. For that, we will perform Mesos and Marathon REST API calls using simple cURL commands. First, we will…
Testing the Hetzner Cloud API via cURL — IaaS Automation
In this blog post, we will be testing the Hetzner Cloud API. As a "Hello World" example, we will learn how to add an API key to a project and use the API key to do the following: add an…
Properly move a Website to a new Domain with minimized SEO Losses
Are you planning to move your website to a new domain? Be prepared to lose a large portion of your traffic. In this blog post, we will talk about how to properly move a website to a new domain and how…
Getting Started with DC/OS on AWS
In the step-by-step tutorial Getting Started with DC/OS on Vagrant, we have learned how to install a MesosPhere DC/OS data center operating system locally. This time, we will install a DC/OS system on AWS Cloud: existing AWS CloudFormation templates will help us create…
Angular Universal CLI – Step-by-Step Example with REST Client
This time we will learn how to create a small Angular Universal CLI project that is using the WordPress REST service to retrieve and display the title and content of a WordPress blog post. Angular Universal CLI combines the Universal…
Behavior-Driven Angular – Part 2: Inserting REST Data as „innerHTML“ into a Web Application
Today, we will extend the behavior-driven development example of the previous blog post and add the blog content to the document. Like last time, we will retrieve the HTML content from the WordPress API. Sounds easy, right? We will see that…
Behavior-Driven Angular – part 1: Consuming a RESTful Web Service with Angular 4
In this step-by-step tutorial, we will follow a behavior-driven development approach to create an Angular 4 application from Angular CLI. The hello-world-like application will consume the WordPress REST API and it will display a blog post title. We will create…
Hello Java Hipster: Angular 4 and Spring Boot
In this blog post, Java Hipster will help us creating a mini blog application based on Angular 4 and Spring Boot. Angular is a popular framework for creating reactive single page applications, while Spring Boot is a robust java-based backend framework…
Angular 4: Automatic Table of Contents
In this step by step tutorial, we will go through the process of creating a two-level automatic Table of Contents by adding Angular Typescript/javascript code. We will perform following steps: We will discuss alternative solutions. We will start an Angular…
Angular 4 Universal: Boosting Performance through Server Side Rendering
This time we will show, how to use server side rendering with Angular 4 (or Angular 2). Like in my previous blog post, we will consume a RESTful Web Service with Angular 4. However, the web page will be displayed…
Vagrant on CentOS 7 – Setting up Test Environments the easy Way
After stumbling upon several guides still describing a Vagrant installation via a RubyGem - which is no longer supported - the following article was created and will provide a quick setup guide on how to setup Vagrant on CentOS 7.…
Angular 4 Hello World Quickstart
In this hello world style tutorial, we will follow a step by step guide to a working Angular 4 application. We will also be able to demonstrate the two way binding feature, which will make sure that the browser reflects…
Jenkins Part 3.2: Trigger a downstream Job or Workflow with Hand-over of Parameters
This blog post will lead you through the steps how to trigger a downstream Freestyle job or Pipeline workflow from an upstream Freestyle project. We will also show how to pass a parameter from Freestyle project to the downstream workflow…
Getting Started with DC/OS on Vagrant
In the course of this Hello World style tutorial, we will explore DC/OS, a Data Center Operating System developed and open sourced by Mesosphere with the target to hide the complexity of data centers. We will install DC/OS on your local PC or Notebook…
How to add a Table of Contents on WordPress.com
The target of this short HowTo is to show, how a table of contents section can be added with the help of the HTML-XML-utils to a WordPress.com page. This overcomes the fact that the Wordpress.com free Blog Site does not offer the…
Cassandra „Hello World“ Example
Today, we will introduce Cassandra, a distributed and resilient, highly scalable noSQL database. For simplicity, we will run a cluster within Docker containers. We will test the resiliency functions by killing one of two containers and verifying that all data…
Resolving Networking Problems (Performance Problems) of a WD My Cloud NAS System
Ever since I had bought a Western Digital My Cloud System with 4 TB of Backup space, I had problems with it: after some hours, the system was unreachable over the network. Several firmware upgrades later the problem has aggravated,…
