Pods in kubernetes (k8s) are ephemeral; i.e. They come and go anytime. We can’t assume a pod will live forever or even a specific amount of time. Pods have IP addresses. Due to its ephemeral nature, it will not have a static IP address. When it starts afresh k8s will…

APIs have become a software commodity today. It’ll be hard to find any enterprise talking about digitization not doing anything with APIs. API is a general term to refer a way to communicate between two systems using an agreed interface, hence the name ‘Application Programming Interface’. In essence it enables…

Ballerina is an open-source programming language. It’s a language that was designed with cloud in mind and has superior support for network interactions that’s essential for modern application design. It also got an extensive standard library for common operations that’s needed for application programming. …

Ballerina is an open-source programming language. It’s a language that was designed with cloud in mind and has superior support for network interactions that’s essential for modern application design. Primary developer of Ballerina is WSO2 Inc. where I work as a Solutions Architect. …

In this post I’ll be discussing Websockets. Websockets have been around for sometime now, so chances are high that you already know or have heard of it. This post is intended for those who want to know what it is or quickly refresh their know-how on it. …

In a previous post I discussed implementing a GraphQL API with Python, Graphene and Django. GraphQL is designed to solve some drawbacks of REST APIs. Nevertheless REST APIs are still widely used and likely that many companies will implement more and more REST APIs to complement their internal digitization processes. …

Web has come a long way in the history. It’s now in an unprecedented position such that many applications are being targeted to be web applications. Even video games market is on the web. It’s well known that ubiquitous JavaScript is dominating in the web world that has brought life…

WSO2 Identity Server (IS) is a leading API driven, open-source Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) product that is easy to use and very versatile in its offering. You can right away start using it for development if you download the product from WSO2 website. In this brief post, I’m…

Today, it wouldn’t be an overstatement if we say all companies are ‘Software Companies’. This is one of the popular phrases that we hear from industry leaders of the likes of Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft. …