Tech blog
I've been building out a web app using Create React App, developing and deploying is a breeze. But now I need a server side rendering solution for my specific sitation. All the solutions around the web I have found are great, but they don't address the issue I have. So in this post I'll share my own "from scratch" solution. The problem I am solving is:
For a project I need to run geth 1.6 in a docker container on my Raspberry Pi that has raspbian jessie installed. I was looking online for such a docker image, but after some searching I gave up and just created my own docker image.
Now we've set up Prometheus we can very easily start logging interesting metrics from our nodejs app.
Prometheus is a great open source monitoring system by soundcloud. I personally use it on a single server to:
I just open sourced the globe behind the Realtime Bitcoin Globe. When I published the globe almost a year ago it was based on this awesome project by the Google Data Arts team. That project is great for plotting data in a very specific way (a barchart plotted in 3d on a 3d earth. At that time it took me quite a bit of hacking to make it work for my needs.