Microservices with Spring Boot and Kubernetes: Getting Started with Minikube

8 Jul, 2020 - 5 minutes
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Introduction This is (hopefully) the first in a series of posts detailing my adventures with Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes. My focus will be mostly on architecting, developing, monitoring, and maintaining microservices on Kubernetes and not so much on the administration or InfraOps challenges of maintaining a Kubernetes cluster. You shouldn’t be maintaining your own production Kubernetes cluster anyway - OpenShift is a great option for an on-premise cluster, and AWS, Google and Azure, along with many others, have great public cloud Kubernetes-based container platforms available.

Developing Asterisk Voice Services

4 Feb, 2015 - 8 minutes
Introduction This is what the Asterisk site says about it: “Asterisk is a free and open-source framework for building communications applications. Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a communications server. Asterisk powers IP PBX systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers and is used by small businesses, large businesses, call centres, carriers and governments worldwide. " A large number of Asterisk installations seem to be PBX (private branch exchange) related for small to medium companies and some commercial PBX solutions such as SwitchVox are customised Asterisk appliances with a user-friendly GUI.