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Do you want your DropWizard app to create and serve a zip archive to users? If you’ve got a lot of data then you should periodically create an archive and store it on a CDN for people to download. But …
Create and serve a Zip archive from within DropWizard Read more »
If you’re more of an OpenShift than Heroku fan, here’s how you can get your SBT-built Java project onto OpenShift. OpenShift has fewer dynos (“gears”) at the free tier (only 3) but they idle after 24 hours instead of 1, …
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I love Heroku for quickly deploying and testing your applications. The free usage tier makes it no cost for simple applications, and the Git Push To Deploy mechanism is a great way to test your build environment isn’t using cached …
A quick example of creating a DropWizard service to post to Twitter. You’ll need to register a new app with Twitter, and note down the API keys so it works with your account (instructions provided if you’ve never done this).
Time to make use of Amazon’s AWS offerings – specifically the Simple Storage Service. tl;dr / Executive Summary:- $ curl -L -O https://github.com/AndrewGorton/AwsFileStorage/archive/v1.0.0.zip $ unzip v1.0.0.zip $ cd AwsFileStorage-1.0.0 $ mvn package $ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=<enter_your_aws_access_key_here> $ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<enter_your_aws_secret_access_key_here> $ export …
Slight improvement to the previous post about building using a Docker container. I’ve split it into two parts. The first part simply creates an image with OpenJDK 1.7, Maven 3.1.1, Git, tar, unzip and vim. The second part downloads the …
I’ve been examining the performance of my project’s DropWizard microservices. If you set the default loglevel to debug, DropWizard is very chatty – which is not good for performance. Using Gatling to locally stress-test the service (eg both Gatling and …