It's been a while since I published some technical information about my Geolocation API. So in this article I want to provide some information about the current state of the projects and talk about some of the problems I had to deal with during the last year (or so).
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In this short article I want to share my experiences with the aerys application framework. I experimentally used the aerys server at my ShinyGeoip instance over at geoip.nekudo.com.
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In this article I will explain how you can use the Angela worker-framework to build a microservice application in just a few simple steps.
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With increasing traffic on my free GeoIp API I decided to take a detailed look onto the application powering the API to check if performance improvements were possible. In the end the application got the whole nekudo performance overhauling. This is a detailed report about what I changed.
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A few days ago I completed my work on a new project and it is now available for download at GitHub. ShinyBlog is a lightweight Blog/CMS application entirely based on markdown files. Of course the software is free and open-source.
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In this article I want to introduce "ShinyDeploy" - a project I have been working on during the last month. As many features are already implemented and working I decided that it's time to introduce this application to the community and hopefully find some beta-testers.
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In my last post on gearman microservices I already mentioned the code I am using to manage Gearman workers in my applications. Now I have isolated the code from the rest of the project and created a simple framework called Angela. It contains all the necessary methods to create and manage Gearman workers in a PHP application.
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About 10 month ago I released ShinyGeoip and started the free geolocation API at geoip.nekudo.com so I guess it's about time for a quick status update.
The code seems to be quite stable as I had to fix only minor bugs during the last 10 month. For performance reasons I decided to kick the Basscss toolkit and replace with some own lines of CSS to reduce the overhead when loading the homepage.
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