PostgREST serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database. It provides a cleaner, more standards-compliant, faster API than you are likely to write from scratch. Motivation Using PostgREST is an alternative to manual CRUD programming. Custom API servers suffer problems. Writing business logic often duplicates, ignores or hobbles database structure. Object-relational mapping is …
Proof-of-authority 101
PoA, it’s a very simplistic protocol, where instead of miners racing to find a solution to a difficult problem, authorized signers can at any time at their own discretion create new blocks. The challenges revolve around how to control minting frequency, how to distribute minting load (and opportunity) between the various signers and how to …
MetaMask now supports Ledger Hardware Wallets
Last month, MetaMask released 4.9.0, which included support for Trezor hardware wallets. As we discussed in our blog post, your funds are only as safe as your keys — hardware wallets are a great way to store keys securely offline. We want Ethereum users to be as safe as possible and we don’t want to leave anyone …
Hardware wallet integration emulator
Trezor is a hardware wallet providing advanced security for handling Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies private keys. Unlike traditional cold storage methods (offline storage or paper wallets), Trezor makes secure payments without exposing your private keys to a potentially compromised computer. See Security philosophy for more info. Trezor is a small single-purpose computer. It is designed to protect your private keys from possible …
Webhook
A webhook in web development is a method of augmenting or altering the behaviour of a web page, or web application, with custom callbacks. These callbacks may be maintained, modified, and managed by third-party users and developers who may not necessarily be affiliated with the originating website or application. Webhook is implemented as a RESTful API endpoint, there is no specific rules …
Ember.js
Ember is a JavaScript front-end framework designed to help you build websites with rich and complex user interactions. It does so by providing developers both with many features that are essential to manage complexity in modern web applications, as well as an integrated development toolkit that enables rapid iteration. From the beginning Ember was designed …
SOAP vs REST
SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol – is probably the better known of the two models. SOAP relies heavily on XML, and together with schemas, defines a very strongly typed messaging framework. Every operation the service provides is explicitly defined, along with the XML structure of the request and response for that operation. Each input …
SPA and Google SEO
Nowadays SinglePageApplication is everywhere, providing great performance and user experience. But what about SEO / Will search engine bots be able to see SPAs correctly? Along time ago, when computers are not powerful enough, most search engine bots were just checking HTML static pages.But nowadays, bots got much cleaver and powerful. Google bot surely supports …
ReactPHP – HIGH performance PHP development
ReactPHP is a low-level library for event-driven programming in PHP. At its core is an event loop, on top of which it provides low-level utilities, such as: Streams abstraction, async DNS resolver, network client/server, HTTP client/server and interaction with processes. Third-party libraries can use these components to create async network clients/servers and more. Using ReactPHP, …