by Tim Gray | Sep 20, 2017 | CloudBI |
A lot of people talk about how microservices are the best way to build software system these days, but what are they? In this blog I will have a quick look at what microservice based software systems are. Define a Microservice Please? There is no official definition...
by Tim Gray | Sep 15, 2017 | CloudBI |
Hosting on HTTPS is hard. First off you have to get your domain, then pay some annoying security giant a large amount of money for a SSL certificate that expires in 1 year (and you have to pay them again), then you have to configure your website to use the...
by Tim Gray | Sep 7, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, CloudBI |
When we deploy and run applications on AWS (or anywhere really) most times we need to configure that application so that it can find the other services and applications it needs to run correctly. Today I will look at a the simple way of using config files deployed to...
by Tim Gray | Aug 29, 2017 | CloudBI, Open Source |
Capturing and storing data of one thing changing over time is called time series data. When we capture time series data we are more interested in trends and change than the current state of a ‘thing’. Storing and querying this type of data can...
by Tim Gray | Aug 11, 2017 | CloudBI, Qlik Sense |
I was recently tasked with pulling the health check information from the Qlik Sense enterprise health check api. This involved authenticating a .Net client against the Qlik Sense Repository Service API. There are two ways of authenticating against Qlik for .Net. The...
