Context When you need to securely access a resource on a server, whereas it is a document or the result of a web service call, the transaction needs to verify different things: The client can trust the server The server must verify that the client can access the resource The first…

Picture by nikko macaspac on Unsplash When Developers Meet Ops You’ve built your Java application and deployed it on Kubernetes in your dev environment. Eventually, this app will go to production and you will experience real usage. And then new unexpected problems will come. …

Shit Happens All The Time Recent news reminded a lot of people that a disaster can occur in any datacenter: 3.6 million websites went down after a fire blew up a datacenter of the french hosting company OVH. Octave Klaba, the CEO of OVH, quickly asked his customers to execute their disaster recovery plans. …

What Is The Goal Here? When deploying a Nuxeo application, we often have some parameters that differ from one environment to another. For instance, the SAML endpoint may be different between production and development. To address that problem there are different solutions: specialize some parameters in nuxeo.conf: the configuration then becomes the responsibility of the…

What Does It Mean To Generate A Zip Server Side? One of my reflexes, when I try to do something I’ve never done before, is first to query Google to have an idea if someone already encountered the problem and also get a rough idea about the various strategies to…

Immutable Infrastructure In the DevOps culture, you may often hear about immutable infrastructure. This describes an infrastructure where deployments are reproducible and immutable: if executed twice, it should give the same result. It is important because it guarantees that a given deployment leads to only one given state. For instance, when the…

Inception While playing recently with serverless technologies and Java, it came to my mind a very stupid idea: could we run Nuxeo in a Lambda? Why would I want that? There are numerous situations when you may need light access to the document repository, just to get a document and do…

Picture by Randy Fath on Unsplash The Nuxeo Platform was designed from the beginning to be a Service Oriented Platform. We embraced SOA from the beginning and that’s one of the reason why it’s so easy to do calls like Framework.getService(MyService.class) from every part of the code in Nuxeo. We…

Picture by Kai Dahms on Unsplash What Problem Are We Trying To Solve? I used to be a frontend developer in the past. However, life and job made me switch to the backend side and now to the joy of deploying those applications in the cloud. Nowadays, all frontend applications subscribed to the single page app paradigm…