Welcome to Part 6, The final part of the great RESTful API framework showdown! Last time we had a look at the pros and cons of each framework isolated from the other frameworks. Since then we have had a busy ol' time in the office but finally, we have time to finish...

Sarah Habershon was having a few issues getting data from the Geonet API for her recent visualisation on the shaky times we have been having in NZ. Turns out the Geonet API does not allow direct cross-origin resource sharing, so we had to get around that! Cross-origin...

Welcome back to Part 5 of the great RESTful framework showdown! Today we are going to do things a bit differently. Previously we have assessed the frameworks against requirements of our final system; security, basic functionality, developer experience, etc. Today we...

Welcome back to Part 4 of the great RESTful framework showdown! If you have not read the previous blogs they can be found here. Today we will be addressing the all-important issue of securing our RESTapi and how the frameworks interact with our current security...

So Dropbox got breached in 2012 and we all know about it now. Some of you may have noticed an email or some form of password reset request from dropbox to make sure that your account is secure, but this only helps if you had done the correct thing and used a different...

Welcome back to the great RESTful framework showdown! If you have not read the previous blogs they can be found here. Today we will be taking a look at the core functions we need our RESTapi to perform and how the frameworks measure up, as well as what our developers...

Welcome to Part 2 of the great RESTful framework showdown! You can read Part 1 here. I'm your host Tim Gray. Today our framework requirements. Then we will get to know the frameworks a little better. These frameworks run on the platforms so we'll have a look at those...

RESTful Web APIs are one of the many tools that a developer has at their disposal in the modern development world. As such there are many ways of creating these web APIs and many frameworks to assist you in creating them. At OptimalBI we have a sudden need for a...

This blog follows my previous blog discussing what programming languages are suitable for writing cloud-focused code using Kotlin. We want to encourage our faithful Java developers (if we had any) to move from Java to Kotlin. So we need to show them how much of an...

Even though we love our coffee here at OptimalBI, we have never had a place in our hearts for Java. Even so, Java has a lot to offer for the modern cloud-driven world, but writing good, maintainable and human readable code has never been part of a Java developers...

Recently the cloud space has got all Dockery and another tool has popped up in the space from Docker themselves, Docker Cloud. This tool allows you to do all our Docker service maintenance from a central dashboard no matter where we are deployed. What does it do?...

vs. When you are in the AWS console you may have noticed that there are two options for search, ElasticSearch Service and CloudSearch. Both of these are in different sections of the console and both seem to offer search, but which should you use? As we are in need of...

When talking about deploying an application to the cloud (especially SaaS or similar hardware independent applications) Docker always seems to come up in conversation. With that and the new(ish) Docker Elastic Container Service offering from Amazon we decided that now...

So we have been trundling along with Trifacta and now have exported our recipe, and now we want to do cool stuff with it. One of the cool things that we can do now is use the logic from Trifacta and produce our own little mini parsing engine that we have complete...

We have been playing around with Trifacta a lot recently, you can see all our Trifacta coverage here. As we know Trifacta = I can code (well, sort of). But as with any code we want to be able to save it, store it in Git and reuse it. Here is a short tutorial on how to...

We have published version 1.0 of OptimalSpyglass - an Open Source tool designed to provide you with a portfolio view of resources running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Here is a summary of what's new in v1.0 with a link to download this handy tool at the end: Security...

Introduction The security and access for OptimalSpyglass is important. In order to make OptimalSpyglass as secure as we could we talked to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and tried to get as many other views on security models as we could. We wanted to resolve the following...