Tag: Node.js

Nona’s Kitchen – JavaScript

Good morning! It is Sunday of the Thanksgiving Day 2020 weekend. Time seems to be passing by quite quickly. Earlier this morning I was reading an article regarding the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. It seems that there are still some items that need to be addressed before that vaccine becomes readily available in the USA. Accordingly to the article, we should achieve herd immunity summer 2021. Let’s keep our fingers crossed. In addition there are many other laboratories that are about the same stage as Pfizer. It is safe and reasonable not to depend on a single source.

While I was about to finish editing this document and getting ready to post it, my wife called me to go grocery shopping to Trader Joe’s. On weekends, unless I get up earlier (around 04:00 AM), I typically have time to work on a single 2-hour block. I can extend the block if needed, but if I am doing something with my wife, that tends to put an end to work on that day. Continue reading “Nona’s Kitchen – JavaScript”

First Web Application – Node.js

Hope you are having a nice day. Today is Tuesday. Unless I am mistaken, it has been three weeks since Election Day and as far as I know the results for the presidential election are still up in the air. Hopefully we will find out the results in the next few days.

Next week is Thanksgiving Day. My wife and I were planning on having very few people over, but after further deliberations, we decided that we will skip and celebrate Thanksgiving 2021 with family and friends. Based on what is going on with COVID-19, it seems that a few vaccines will be made available early next year. By November 2021 we expect that most things would be back to normal; that is, the new normal. Continue reading “First Web Application – Node.js”

Simple and Second Web Servers in Node.js

I am about to call it a day. It is dark and cold (25 F) in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I am in my office attempting to finish this post while my wife is upstairs in the living room wrapped in a blanket. Tomorrow morning we will wake up to a balmy 12 F. What else can I say?

I am reading and experimenting with the content of the book “Get Programming with Node.js” by Jonathan Wexler. I am currently on page 55. Expect to be done with towards the end of next month. At that time I will switch to experiment with Deno. Then I will move on to generate and post a first pass of a storage server. It should be a lot of fun. Continue reading “Simple and Second Web Servers in Node.js”

REST API

It is another average fall day in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. It is sunny and cold. Two more days for the weekend; not that it matters because we are still in the COVID-19 pandemic. That said things appear to be getting better. Hopefully a vaccine will be available soon and we will all get into a new normal.

I am still reading the book Hacker’s Delight by Henry Warren. I have a couple more chapters that I would like to finish before putting it down and starting Get Programming with Node.js by Jonathan Wexler. As I mentioned a few months ago, I will be working on a storage project for my blog. I will start with the APIs and database interface. I decided to use MongoDB for the metadata and the file system for the data. The server part code will be implemented using Node.js in JavaScript. After we have the base functionality we will split the software to work on multiple servers. Once that is done we will move to place the modules in Docker containers and will manage them with Kubernetes. Once all is well, I will see if we can move it to the Azure cloud. After that we will create and integrate additional features. Continue reading “REST API”

Node.js in Production

It is a partly sunny Sunday in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Currently I am waiting for my wife to get ready to go out for a walk. Yesterday it was cloudy and sprinkled on and off all day. Towards the end of the day it cleared up but we were not in the mood to walk given that we were watching movies at home.

Spoke on the phone with my youngest son. He and his wife were driving to Wisconsin from Indiana to check out a few homes today. He got a job in the area and the family is moving in a month or two. Seems like a house that matched their expectations came on the market last week and they are hoping will meet and exceed their expectations. Will find more about it later this afternoon when they drive back home. Continue reading “Node.js in Production”

Basic RESTful Service – Part II

It is a rainy and stormy day in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. All is well with rain, but I do shutdown my computers as soon as we get lightning. Have my computers connected via different power supplies, but on more than one occasion I have lost multiple components. So as soon as I hear thunder, I immediately shutdown and read until the storm subsides.

I worked in 2-hour blocks. At the end of the second block I went up and prepare tea. My wife and I have this morning ritual. What was unique today is that a rafter of wild turkeys was in our backyard. Last Friday the tom had two females and they were stopping traffic on the parkway. Today the rafter has grown to include seven females. There are several large parks and dozens of lakes and ponds in this area. We see turkeys year round. Continue reading “Basic RESTful Service – Part II”

Node.js Issue – RESOLVED

A couple days ago the temperature in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul rose up to 70 F. Yesterday the highs were in the upper 50s. Today the temp is going to go as high as 34 F and will be raining and snowing. Not sure how much snow and rain we will be getting. Hopefully things will not flood.

I am working with micro services and Node.js in order to streamline a storage server currently implemented by three monolith services. We will be going the hybrid route for a while. Eventually all will be implemented with Docker and possibly running on a public cloud (i.e., AWS or Azure). Continue reading “Node.js Issue – RESOLVED”

About JavaScript – Part I

This morning I received a message from a discussion forum for the Graph Analytics for Big Data from the University of California San Diego by Coursera. I completed the course last year.

I tend to post now and then when I really see a need. Since then at least three students have used the contents of the post and were kind enough to leave me a message. I do appreciate it. Hope it helps fellow students even if they were in a hurry and did not have time to leave a thank you note. Feels good, what can I say. Continue reading “About JavaScript – Part I”