We’ve touched Thinky last week and showed you how to query documents by fields of a nested object. This week, we’re continuing on Thinky with another post showing you how to extend your Model definition by adding custom methods. Before diving into the details, have a look at …

Requesting data from an API can include user defined filters for specific data. A common scenario is to filter a single item from its resource collection by using a query or path parameter. Depending on the API implementation, you’re probably using the same endpoint to request different data with …

Thinky is a lightweight Node.js ORM for RethinkDB. The library helps you to define models representing the objects you’re using within your code. Further, you can define various relations between each of your models. Primarily, Thinky helps you to CRUD documents in RethinkDB out of your Node.js …

CoreOS is suited for all kinds of use cases. In the previous blog posts we’ve shown you how to submit and run a Node.js application inside a Docker container on a CoreOS cluster and also how to scale this Node.js app to multiple instances across the cluster. …

This post is a follow up on our tutorial guiding you through the setup on how to submit and run a Node.js app on a CoreOS cluster. Within the previous post, we only showed you how to submit and run a single app instance on a given machine within …

You’ve already noticed our content flash to celebrate the Retrofit 2 release. This is another post as part of our contribution to push the Retrofit community forward by sharing the knowledge about internal changes of this Retrofit release. If you worked with Retrofit 1, you know the rudimentary behavior …

Retrofit 2 finally comes with an additional annotation for dynamic urls. What was a hackaround in Retrofit 1 is now just a single @Url annotation for the endpoint declaration. This post will show you how to make use of dynamic endpoint urls for individual requests. {{video}} {{outline}} Use-Case Scenarios There …

Adding request parameters can be kind of pain in the a** if your service methods allows multiple query parameters which also can be optional. We’ve published an article describing how to use optional query parameters. Today, we’re going to simplify the handling of multiple query parameters by introducing …