Intro At uShip, our monolithic web application and the services supporting it are written in ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and hosted on IIS . We have begun the journey of transitioning to microservices. One of the important decisions we had to make early on was the choice of hosting model for our microservice APIs. We… Read More
Overview In the past couple of weeks, I have been wrestling with the connectivity between Nginx and Consul-Template. While it’s fairly straightforward to get Consul-Template to control Nginx, having them work well within Docker isn’t the easiest thing in the world. But that is jumping quite a bit forward, let’s start with the problem before… Read More
Here at uShip we are pretty big fans of open sourcing code. At the same time, we are also fans of a good ol’ prank. Hence, we have decided to open source a few of our favorite code pranks to share with the world (and just in time for April Fool’s Day). But first, a… Read More
Overheard at work today: “…this is why I hate JavaScript so much.” Sound like something you’d say? Instead of letting the hate flow through you, know that it doesn’t have to be like that. JavaScript is evolving quickly and picking up luxuries that C# has had for years. Subtle Differences Before I get into the… Read More
Introduction When integrating with a platform that offers a REST API, a developer sometimes has the option of downloading the client library in their language of choice, or writing HTTP code themselves to integrate with the API directly. You as an API provider should decide early on if you wish to offer SDKs to your… Read More
Note: This article was originally published on Github Abstract In general, the key to keeping the iPhone UI responsive is to avoid blocking the main thread. In the case of UITableView, this boils down to keeping tableView(_:cellForRowAtIndexPath:) as performant as possible. However, sometimes it is simply not possible to marshall all of the data needed… Read More
Over the past three years, hackathons at uShip have grown from an idea to a tradition. Ideally, we want each event to feel almost effortless in their planning and execution. While we’ve experienced many successes, we’ve also learned a lot of lessons along the way. Below are some of the takeaways from our team of… Read More
For the longest time we committed our entire node_modules folder here at uShip. We recently made the switch to npm On-Site. This is our journey. How We Use npm At uShip Here at the ‘Ship we don’t actually run a node server in production, we just use node for our front-end build system. This includes… Read More
Introduction Here at uShip, our web services have gone through quite a change over the last few years. We have gone from SOAP based services to a RESTful API. Recently we dipped our toes into Swagger, an API specification framework, to provide more value to our developers and external partners. Why Swagger? We originally started… Read More
A couple months back, one of my fellow uShip developers popped his head into my team’s room at the end of the day. “You guys going to the API meetup?”, he asked. As an iOS developer, I don’t actually write APIs very often, but I’m interested enough in how consumable they are. Why not go?… Read More