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At Redox, we're taking a pragmatic approach to building microservices, especially in how we handle cross-cutting concerns. Most refer to this part of a microservice ecosystem as the chassis—things that every microservice needs to have in order for us to be confident that it's a quality product. The chassis includes:

What is Lambda and why you should care

AWS Lambda is the standard bearer of a new paradigm in cloud computing generally referred to as "serverless". Before serverless, developers needed to provision servers in the cloud. They needed things like patches, health checks, monitoring software, and all of that takes a toll on the people responsible for keeping them running.

Character encoding is one of the most arcane subjects a technologist will ever encounter, yet it underpins literally every piece of text we see on our computers. This article will focus on HL7v2 and the Redox API, and how they treat different encodings.

In the beginning of September, Redox participated in FHIR Connectathon 16  in San Diego. It was a lot of fun and a very worthwhile experience—we learned a lot, built some awesome prototypes, and met lots of great people.

Redox is live with an actual FHIR integration. I'm pretty sure I predicted it would happen in 2017, but sadly I didn't blog about it. In the spirit of being a prognosticator, I'm going to predict what I think the future of FHIR will look like.

In this post, I'm going to share how I set up a Node.js server behind an AWS load balancer that can receive client certificates.

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