I had quite a lot to do the last couple of weeks and I barely found time to continue my journey to become an Azure Solutions Architect. My free subscription ended and Microsoft asks me kindly to do an upgrade. Understanding the Costs I want to understand costs better! I guess this is something everyone… Continue reading Free Subscription Ended (and how to setup cost alerts)
Getting Started with Azure
I’ve already learned quite some stuff about Azure networking on my way to become Azure Solution Architect. Reading is great, but hands on experience is really helpful to strengthen the knowledge. But how to start? Luckily there is an Azure Free Account. Subscribing to it is very easy and you get a bit of play… Continue reading Getting Started with Azure
Becoming an Azure Solution Architect
I decided to become an Azure Solution Architet. I’m by no means an expert at this stage, but the main reason I’m writing a blog is to write down what I’ve learned. Why Solution Architect I haven’t checked out all the other possible certifications in detail, but I felt like this gives me the ability… Continue reading Becoming an Azure Solution Architect
Typolino – Firebase and GitLab CI/CD
I decided to migrate the Typolino application to GitLab and this blog post describes how I did it. Until now I hosted my code on GitHub or Bitbucket. I wasn’t really interested in GitLab. But after taking a closer look I realized that GitLab has some very nice features aboard, specifically in the area of… Continue reading Typolino – Firebase and GitLab CI/CD
Typolino – Analyze Bundle Size
Finally I had some time to fix some bugs on the weekend – and I switched all queries to get() as I don’t see the point for this application to get live updates – one may ask why use Firebase at all. But I have to say it’s more than just the realtime features. How… Continue reading Typolino – Analyze Bundle Size
Typolino – Add animations
I never used animations with Angular. Funny as I remember having used the AngularJS variant quite excessively. So why not try it out. I’m pretty sure there is a cleverer way of doing it but maybe I just need to get used to the system first. Seems as if one can simply define the animations… Continue reading Typolino – Add animations
Typolino – Web Worker Revisited
The first iteration of the web worker was OK and did the job. But somehow it didn’t feel good enough. I wanted to rewrite it using RxJs. The main reason being that with RxJs I have built in functionality to control concurrency. I don’t want a lesson with a lot of images to go crazy.… Continue reading Typolino – Web Worker Revisited
Typolino – Web Worker
Just for fun I was thinking to add web workers to fetch the image download URLs and also the images in a web worker. If the URL is already there, perfect, if not wait for the web worker to complete its task. Actually web workers are quite well supported and it is super simple to… Continue reading Typolino – Web Worker
Typolino – Prefetching Assets
Caching has a big effect. But a first time visitor might still have to wait for certain resources to download. To improve the experience for the users we can try to prefetch resources that we most probably will need later (e.g. after the login). In our example application Typolino the candidates are found easily: the… Continue reading Typolino – Prefetching Assets
Typolino – Cache Control
To improve the UX it is important to serve content as fast as possible. The Firebase hosting is pretty clever, but the images we serve from the storage has a default cache configuration that disallows caching the content. We can control the cache-control header when uploading the images. This will allow caching the content for… Continue reading Typolino – Cache Control