Simulating the Bitcoin Network

I have deployed a Bitcoin node using the kiln operator and connected a Lightning node to it, however, I am running the Bitcoin node in simnet mode, meaning it is simulating its own isolated Bitcoin network. This requires some explanation....

Supporting Bitcoin and Lightning Protocols with Kubernetes

Using a Kubernetes operator pattern, I intend to explore the utility of Kubernetes as a platform for a hosting and managing private Bitcoin and Lightning infrastructure....

Build qpid-cpp on Fedora 32

The other day, I wanted to produce and consume some AMQP messages in order to test some behaviors of Apache QPID Dispatch Router and Apache ActiveMQ...

Handling JSON Dates with Camel

JSON is popular data interchange format for modern web services, but service implementations rarely deal with JSON internally. Typically, we want to work with objects that...

Why Polyglot Microservices?

A microservice architecture is not required to facilitate a variety of languages and stacks for service implementation. In fact, the majority of microservice implementations seem to...