A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.
Nginx Unit looks interesting:
What is NGINX Unit?
NGINX Unit is a new, lightweight, open source application server built to meet the demands of today’s dynamic and distributed applications. Deploy configuration changes with no service disruptions. Run code in multiple languages. Build the foundation of your service mesh.An application server – and so much more.
Still in beta though…
From the grakn.ai website:
Grakn is a distributed hyper-relational database for knowledge-oriented systems. Grakn enables machines to manage complex data that serves as a knowledge base for cognitive/AI systems.
Graql is Grakn’s reasoning (through OLTP) and analytics (through OLAP) query language. Graql is a much higher level abstraction over traditional query language – SQL, NoSQL, or Graphs.
This blog post demonstrates how to tie together Vue.js and GraphQL using the Apollo Client. This is not something that I’ve tried yet, but it’s on the horizon.
If you have any other handy links for either Vue.js or GraphQL, please throw them my way.
My colleague Andrey Vystavkin has been setting up a testing environment for our CakePHP projects recently. We had one before, of course, using PHPUnit. But this time we wanted to add Google Chrome headless browser with some form of JavaScript test suite, so that we could cover functional tests and a bit of front-end. Andrey described the configuration of NightwatchJS on TravisCI in this blog post. If you are more of a “show me the code on GitHub” person, have a look at this Pull Request (still work in progress) on our project-template-cakephp project.
Once we are happy with the TravisCI configuration, we’ll be bringing this setup to our BitBucket Pipelines environment as well.
The setup is also based around CakePHP framework, but it’s easy enough to adopt it to any other framework, PHP or not.
“The end of CSRF?” blog post talks about the new feature coming to browsers – SameSite cookie enforcement, which will help in getting rid of Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. Too bad this is currently only supported by Google Chrome (both desktop and mobile), and Opera. But I’m sure it’s coming soon to the rest of the browsers.
Update: It looks like the above blog post is almost a copy of this blog post, which has a number of useful comments. Including this one, which links to a variety of projects and programming languages bug trackers requesting the support of the SameSite cookie feature. Also, it looks like SameSite cookie is superseded by the Cookie Prefix solution, proposed by Google.