Containers are an operating-system-level virtualisation technology for running multiple isolated applications on a single shared Kernel instance. Containers on a host make system calls to the same shared Kernel instance and are allotted separate namespaces, making their IO, networking, and processes isolated from the host’s.
Anatomy of Linux container runtimes
Dumb REST APIs and boilerplate code
Is it just me or does everyone hate writing that boilerplate code for various HTTP routes in a dumb REST API implementation?
Playing with Service Workers
Yesterday, I stumbled upon Introduction to Progressive Web Apps on MDN and spent quite some time with Service Workers in particular. I don’t exactly remember what motivated me to pursue this, but it was a fun little ride. Thought I’d share how cool PWAs are!
Embedding code from GitHub in your website
I’ve spent the past few days redesigning my website which is built using Jekyll and GitHub pages. In my last post, I had to embed code samples from one of my repositories and things got a little messy there due to lack of any usable plugins.
Continuous integration and delivery for Android apps
Recently, I created a native Android app called Noice. It started out as a weekend project but as I began to write it from scratch, I found so many new things to learn. So the original goal that should have been achieved within two to three days, ended up taking one and a half weeks.