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SEP Named a Winning Company in the 2022 Powderkeg Unvalley Awards
Westfield, IN - January 2022, SEP, a software product design and development firm has been announced as a winning company in the 2022 Powderkeg Unvalley Awards. This recognizes SEP as one of the best tech companies to work for in…
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In the previous post, I went into depth about our migration from Heroku CI to Jenkins on AWS by containerizing our CI/CD using Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and the Amazon EC2 Container Service Plugin for Jenkins. This allowed us the flexibility of defining all of the different types of build agents we required as […]
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Load Balancing with Nginx and Docker
The previous post showed how to use Nginx as a reverse proxy to an ASP.NET Core application running in a separate Docker container. This time, I’ll show how to use a similar configuration to spin up multiple application containers and use Nginx as a load balancer to spread traffic over them. Desired architecture The architecture […]
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Nginx Reverse Proxy to ASP.NET Core – Separate Docker Containers
The previous blog post showed how to setup a reverse proxy between Nginx and an ASP.NET Core application. In that example, both Nginx and the Kestrel process ran in the same box. As alluded to, there is another (preferable) option. This time, we’ll create two separate containers: one for the application and one for the […]
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Nginx Reverse Proxy to ASP.NET Core – Same Docker Container
As mentioned in the previous post, it is recommended to use something other than Kestrel as the front-line web server. In this example, I’m going to show how to use Nginx as a reverse proxy to the ASP.NET Core application. Reverse-proxy architecture options In terms of architecture setup for reverse proxying for ASP.NET Core in […]
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Testing the application: models and views
As part of the series of posts, the next three posts are dedicated towards writing tests for the Backbone application created in the previous post. All of the tests (in more detail than outlined below) are available. Adding the page to run the tests As with the tests for the API layer, the application tests […]
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Building a Backbone application with a workflow
Now that the API exists, it is time to create the Backbone application. The full code for the application is available. More so than in the previous steps in the series, there is a lot more content in the application than is shown below. Looking through the full source provides a much more complete context […]
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Hosting the Node API in nginx with a reverse proxy
The Backbone application (coming in the next post in the series) will interact with the REST API using AJAX calls. Adding a reverse proxy allows those calls to work without browsers stopping the requests due to cross-site scripting (XSS) concerns and without setting up cross-origin resource sharing (CORS). Using nginx Nginx is used to setup […]
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Building an application with Backbone workflows
A non-typical Backbone example When you start looking into Backbone, you may notice that many of the readily available example sites are setup in the same pattern: display a list of things with a list view and a details. This kind of of example plays to the strengths of the Backbone API. It has some […]
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