Episode 36 - Oct 2017

The Stackd Podcast

Due to a variety of circumstances (including the move to Libsyn for hosting), this episode is being posted late. It was originally recorded in September, 2017.

In this episode, Kito, Danno, and Ian discuss the Equifax hack (caused by an unpatched version of Struts), news from the Polymer Summit, Oracle’s donation of Java EE to Eclipse, Docker in-depth, and more.

UI Tier

Equifax hack: Using Struts and they did not patch.

• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/massive-equifax-breach-caused-by-failure-to-patch-two-month-old-bug/
• https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/apache-struts-cve-2017-5638
• Resolution 1: https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-045.html
• Resolution 2: https://struts.apache.org/docs/s2-046.html

Polymer 3 Announced - Move to NPM and ES6

Ionic releases Stencil - Web Components Compiler

PrimeReact 1.0.0-Final Released

Java EE

Oracle donates Java EE to Eclipse Foundation

Microprofile.io - Standard for Java EE-based microservices

Vavr.io - functional library for Java 8/9

Other

Docker

• First impressions
  • Key concepts: containers, images, volumes, networks, stacks, swarm, nodes
  • Docker CE vs EE
  • Cost savings, efficiency, ease of use
• Tools, tools, tools (compose, docker-machine, docker CLI, Docker for Mac, Kitematic, Docker Cloud, Docker Hub, orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm), IDE integration (Eclipse Docker support, Webstorm Docker tooling)
• Deploying docker in the cloud (EC2, MS Azure, DigitalOcean)
• Docker for developers
  • Dockerfile, base images, installing Java, database, web server, stacks, compose files, local swarm
• Docker in production
  • Scaling a service, private Docker registry (on Nexus), swarm mode
• Docker gotchas
  • Persistent data in the cloud
  • Swarm mode overlay networking
  • Development environment host VM cache
  • Zombie processes (TINI)
• Docker releases
  • Current stable: 17.07.0-ce
  • Edge channel

Picks

• Nozbe - task management

Events

• Devoxx - November 6-12th, Antwerp, Belgium
• RVA JavaScript Conf 2017 - November 3rd, Richmond, VA, USA

No Fluff Just Stuff

• Minneapolis
  • October 20 - 21, 2017