Cap’n Proto with React and NestJS

In a recent project for a Mayflower client, we used Quarkus Java Microservices with Google Protobuf. In a very abstract sense, our objective was to exchange serialized binary data over a message bus system living in Kubernetes. Therefore I decided to replace the existing tech stack with Typescript, NestJS, and Cap’n Proto IDL (Interactive Data…

Containerizing Django and React with Docker

Nowadays, software developers work on multiple projects at the same time. The projects usually present distinct requirements. Nevertheless, they must be reproduced identically in multiple machines, and sometimes they have to live in the same hardware – the developer’s computer. The so-called container technology stands out among the different approaches used to reproduce software projects…

Open Mayday … mit AWS, React und einem hohen Wetteinsatz

Der nächste Open Mayday bei Mayflower steht an! Open Mayday?! Ja! Wir öffnen unsere Slack-Time an sogenannten Open Maydays immer wieder für Externe, um neue Impulse zu bekommen und an einem coolen Tag mit viel Luft zum Reden voneinander zu lernen und in Kontakt mit der Community zu gehen. Nach dem großen Erfolg dieses Formats…

Pimp my Backbone.View (by replacing it with React)

I’ve been using Backbone.js in a couple of projects now and my feelings about it are quite diverse. On the one hand, I like how it provides you with guidelines on how to structure your frontend code. Although splitting model and view is a very basic idea in software development, it also is very powerful.…