Relative Engineering

A collection of ramblings, thoughts & code snippets



I’ll call him “Moose”

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I’m an advocate and embrace modern DevOps practices and very much of the opinion that making all servers “cattle” not “pets” is the only way to provision. However, occasionally we do need a pet, lets call him “Moose”.

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Modern Web Application

AngularJS Scala Play MongoDB

This application shows how to build a ‘modern’ web application, comprising of a Client-side JavaScript App built using AngularJS wrote in CoffeeScript, served from the Play 2 Framework and using document persistence with Reactive Mongo a non-blocking Scala client for MongoDB.

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Lightning Voting

AngularJs Bootstrap Firebase

So it’s 2014 and the buzzword of the year seems to be Serverless, having computation as a service or the ability to have a stateful application without the need to run and manage a backend server, sounds an interesting idea. Just as the cloud has revolutionised how we deploy and build new systems, will Serverless give us the flexibility to quickly and effortlessly run code without the overhead of a server.

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