Category: Cloud Development

  • To 404 or Not to 404 – Using HTTP Response Codes to Provide User-Friendly Error Messages in Microservices Implementation

    To 404 or Not to 404 – Using HTTP Response Codes to Provide User-Friendly Error Messages in Microservices Implementation

    How often the following happens to you? You write your client code, you call an API, and receive a 404 Not found response. You start investigating the issue in your code; change a line here or there; spend hours troubleshooting just to find out that the issue is on the server-side, and you can’t do…

  • Embed the Origin Dockerfiles into Your Docker Container Images Using Labels

    Embed the Origin Dockerfiles into Your Docker Container Images Using Labels

    With the recent Solorigate incident, a lot of emphasis is put on determining the origin of the software running in an enterprise. For Docker container images, this will mean to embed in the image the Dockerfile the image was built from. However, tracking down the software origin is not so trivial to do. For closed-source…