Overview

In this blog post we will look at how to create a GraphQL API over our PostgreSQL database and how to secure it granularly using PostGraphile and PostgreSQL’s inbuilt security mechanisms.

Overview

Elasticsearch is a popular search and analytical engine. The core of it open source and it’s built on top of Apache Lucene. There is a close competitor so Elasticsearch named Apache Solr, which is also built on top of Lucene and is a very good search engine; however Solr is beyond the scope of this series.

Django is a mature web framework for Python. Among it’s many uses is creating REST APIs (or a standalong backend for that matter). Django provides an authentication and authorization mechanism out of the box, but if you wish to make your REST API or the backend stateless, you need to roll your own.

Django is a mature web framework for Python. It does it’s job well, however anyone writing a RESTful API in Django will soon find that it lacks some of the basic request parsing you would expect from a web framework.

New Relic is normally pretty easy to integrate and doesn’t require any code modifications - at least it didn’t when I was using their Java agent.

Push notifications have readily been available for mobile platforms for quite some time. But push notifications for the web is still a new technology that isn’t supported widely yet. At the time of wriiting this blog post, only Chrome, Firefox and Opera supported push notifications. Safari has support for push notifications through a propriety API that is beyond the scope of this article.

What is two factored authentication? It’s an added layer of security. Generally combining something you know with something you have to authenticate you.

I’m sure anyone who will be reading this post online would’ve used E-Mail. It’s a pretty convenient method of communicating and there are a lot of free email service providers out there.

Load testing is an important step in ensuring that your application can perform well under pressure.

After messing about a little bit with Angular 2, I’decided I like it.

One of the first things that comes to mind when plaing with a new front-end framework is how can we display data?

Before we get started with anything else, can we debug in typescript itself? Not the generated javascript files, but the source typescript? The answer is yes.

There are two ways to create an Angular 2 project.

While the new Javascript specification, ES6 offers a lot of improvements, one thing it lacks is a strong static typing system.

ECMAScript is the name of the standard that guides Javascript.

How does a fully fledged Javascript class looks like?

Setting up Jekyll on git hub as a personal blog wasn’t that hard. But deciding what to write on it wasn’t!