Mutual Auth – Nginx and ServiceNow

Note: This post details about mutual authentication configuration between ServiceNow and Nginx using self-signed certificates. I have described the steps needed to be taken on both sides in respective sections. In case if you are not interested in reading either parts, I would suggest jumping to the relevant section directly as per below overview. However, it …

NPM License Checker

NPM License Checker This post is in relation to the previous post regarding software licensing. We understood that in most of the cases we need to attribute the derivative product to the creators of these libraries as well. I think it should be done morally first and then legally as well. After all, these libraries have saved …

Software Licensing

Some of you may have cringed reading the title, as I can imagine we as developers don’t really like documentation do we? Forget the licensing, we don’t even care about the documentation related to the code we are working on. Time and again, I have always stated - documentation is of utmost importance. Infact a …

Deployment Woes

In a greenfield implementation, it is not challenging at all because you are the one defining the rules. But, planning an additional micro-service into an already existing landscape can get to you if above concerns are not addressed.

Getting attachments in ServiceNow

One of my friends got in touch with me to ask how do we fetch the attachments from an REST endpoint and store it within ServiceNow? I basically did not have a ready answer to this which piqued my curiosity. This is rather an essential functionality and I was sure there exists some straightforward solution to this.

GitFS

GitFS is a FUSE filesystem and is fully integrated with Git, built by Presslabs. FUSE - is filesystem in userspace which is built to have more control on filesystems for the processes running in user space.

Wrote my first unit test using Jest!

So finally, today was the day when I started implementing the unit test cases for the application I have been working on since some time. The development for the application is not over yet - meaning it doesn’t yet do everything it is supposed to do, but it is at a level where I call …

Docker – Networking

Containerization of applications gives a certain peace of mind to everyone. It’s great - the way applications can be wrapped into platform-agnostic containers which run on any system. Containers provide a generic way to run your applications on any host which makes them very unique. In my previous posts I talked about some basics of containers and …