Riomhaire Research

Our Definition of Done

There are many definitiions within Agile about what it means for a piece of software being defined as ‘done’; Here is ours.

Posted by Riomhaire Research on Tuesday, July 31, 2018

SSL Certs, Docker and Nginx reverse proxy

A short article on how to add SSL certs to your docker hosted sited

Posted by Riomhaire Research on Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Traefik, Consul and Microservices in Go

Microservices are very popular - but how do you scale them ? There are many alternative solutions to this computer science question, but the one’s today we will consider are a couple of common and popular pieces of software called ‘Traefik’ and ‘Consol’. This article is an alternative approch to the one we did in the Linkerd API Gateway Pattern. The Problem. The solution to scaling many instances of the same API from an API perspective (we wont be talking about repository backends such as databases within this article) resolve around the need for two things.

Posted by Riomhaire Research on Friday, June 1, 2018

Grafanai, Prometheus, Docker and Devops

Easy introduction to feeling your infrastructure pulse.

Posted by Riomhaire Research on Sunday, February 4, 2018

Ansible Ad-hoc Commands

Ansible is a versatile simple and powerful IT automation platform that makes your day to day dev-ops a lot easier. Ansible allows automation of your IT Infrasture such as installing software, restarting servers amongst many other features be it on your own hardware or in the cloud. Riomhaire Research mainly uses Ansible to keep our software up to date, for user management and being part of our deployment pipeline. With the pipeline we use it to deploy applications and services to our various deployment environments.

Posted by Riomhaire Research on Sunday, February 4, 2018

REST vs Json-Rpc

Introduction We in Riomhaire have been using Googles Go-Lang for a year or so now and we love its simplicity and cleaness - especially in regards to concurrency. We have recently implemented two demo systems for authentication via JWT and bearer tokens. One system used Go and JSON-RPC called ‘LightAuth’; The other using Go and REST. Before we start we are not pro-REST or pro-RPC and neither are we anti-REST or anti-RPC.

Posted by Riomhaire Research on Saturday, October 21, 2017

Go, Raspberry PI Cluster and Performance

Go, Raspberry PI Cluster and Performance

Posted by Riomhaire Research on Tuesday, September 19, 2017

LinkerD and the API Gateway Pattern

How do Java and Go web-stacks compare from a performance perspective.

Posted by Riomhaire Research on Tuesday, February 7, 2017

A Virtual Mail Server

Using Docker to create a Mail Server

Posted by Riomhaire Research on Monday, August 8, 2016

A Technical Hick-up and Opportunities

How a disaster can be an opportunity

Posted by Riomhaire Research on Monday, August 1, 2016

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