The theory behind the blue/green deployment pattern was discussed in a previous post. If this is not an area that you’re familiar with, I would recommend at least skimming Part I here: https://joelj.ca/blog/blue-green-1 […]
My initial launch of joelj.ca about a year ago was built as an experiment to learn infrastructure as code and cloud-based deployments by leveraging Azure’s PaaS offerings. Gradually, the architecture has evolved for cost-saving purposes, since all that cool cloud infrastructure was a li […]
When I first started coding Strength Journal, I made a deliberate decision to structure the application as a monolith. By “monolith”, I mean that all functionality was implemented by a single server application, rather than separating concerns across multiple services. The term “monolit […]
Tonight, I am super excited to announce the launch of my personal web application project, Strength Journal. The first commits on this project were planted on October 22, and I’ve been working hard since then to build this site out into something that not only fulfilled my own needs, bu […]
In my last post I claimed that the blog project was complete, and I would be transitioning into something new. However, I realized I had some important work still outstanding. Going forward, I want joelj.ca to be relatively hands off -- cheap and easy to maintain. However, the current a […]