Leon Atherton

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/leon/ Leon has over 15 years’ Java experience and leads BuildVu, also contributing to cloud services and internal tooling. Wearing many hats across technical and growth roles as a core member, he enjoys motorsport, strategy games, and software side projects.

   



54 Stories by Leon Atherton

How to Enable SVG Gzip Compression on Apache and NGINX

Gzip compression is a widely supported method of reducing the size of the content sent from a web server in order to improve the...
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How to enable GZIP Compression in Tomcat, Jetty, GlassFish and Payara

GZIP Compression is a widely supported method of reducing the file size of the content hosted by your Java Application Server. This reduces bandwidth...
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What is a Microservice?

If the term Microservice is new to you then chances are that you’re thinking the same thing that went through my mind when I...
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How to convert PDF files to SVG (Tutorial)

How to convert a single PDF file to SVG Access your free converter HERE. Select the PDF file you would like to convert Configure...
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Making a Simple Basecamp Chatbot with NodeJS

Creating a chatbot is a fun way to integrate external tool functionality within Basecamp. I recently created one to call the Bitbucket API, allowing...
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What Chrome 45 dropping NPAPI Plug-in support means

With the recent news that Google has now killed off NPAPI plugins in Chrome 45, it has left many wondering exactly what NPAPI plugins...
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