The systems we operate at Linn are comprised of many microservices deployed across 2 hosts behind a load-balancer. With so many separate processes in play - we wanted a logging solution that would allow us to easily locate and diagnose issues. In this post I describe the solution we arrived…
During a recent team retrospective at Linn I took on the task of devising an approach through which we could document our HTTP APIs. In this post I discuss the first step towards this in the form of metadata module support in NancyFx. The Goal My aim is to make…
As part of our recent work on backbone.hypermedia at Linn I've spent some time familiarising myself with Grunt. With very little effort - we built a workflow which enables us to publish to npm, NuGet and Bower with a single command. In this post I describe how we arrived…
At Linn we have adopted the pattern of using Hypermedia Controls to represent relationships between resources, for example: { "name": { "first" : "Joe", "last": "Bloggs" }, "links" : [ { "rel": "country", "href": "/countries/GB" } ] } But how do you consume an API like this within a Backbone.js app? For a simple case, where you have…
In a previous post I discussed the approach we opted for at Linn when deciding how to evolve our HTTP APIs without breaking existing clients. In this post I describe how we implemented that approach using NancyFx (a web framework for .NET inspired by Sinatra). Jumping In Most of the…
At Linn we develop and maintain a variety of HTTP APIs to support the operations of the company. Over time the number of dependencies between these APIs has increased, and it became apparent that we needed a reliable way to introduce changes without breaking existing clients. In this post I…