Last week we’ve learned about CoreOS’ components and technologies within the ecosystem. This week, we’re directly diving into the practical part and get our hands dirty. If you read the first post, you already know that CoreOS is an operating system geared towards high-availability. Setting up a cluster …

Virtuals are additional fields for a given model. Their values can be set manually or automatically with defined functionality. A common virtual property is the full name of a person, composed of user’s first and last name. Keep in mind: virtual properties don’t get persisted in the database. …

Sorting in RethinkDB (and JavaScript in general) can cause a lot of pain. We previously posted a workaroud for MongoDB to fix this issue. Now we're going to fix it for RethinkDB. The problem: RethinkDB (like MongoDB) always sorts case sensitive in the following order Numerics: 0-9 Uppercase letters: A-Z …