Deploy Meteor apps on Bluemix in 5 easy steps

All IBMers have free access to Bluemix, unfortunately Bluemix does support the Meteor buildpack by default (Node.js app). Here’s how you can work around that limitation in 5 simple steps

I’m assuming that you’ve logged into Bluemix via the CloudFoundry command line interface

Step #1: Go to the Meteor application directory on your local machine

cd path/to/meteor/app/dir

Step #2: Add .cfignore file to ignore downloaded packages associated with this app (This will be downloaded again while deploying Meteor, so no need to upload them).

echo ".meteor/local" >> ./.cfignore

Step #3: Create a MongoLab service (specifically go for MongoLab and not any other MongoDB provider). At the time of this writing Bluemix did not have a MongoLab instance in Europe (eu-gb) so you will probably be able to deploy your Meteor app only in North America (US-South).

cf create-service mongolab sandbox

Step #4: Bind the created Mongolab service to this application

cf bind-service

Step #5: Push the app with Ben Cox‘s Meteor buildpack for Bluemix.

cf push  -b https://github.com/ind1go/bluemix-buildpack-meteor.git

That’s it. Wait for the push to succeed, you should see your Meteor application up an running on Bluemix!

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Google App Engine: Memcaching for dummies example

Here’s a very simple code written in Python 2.7 and webapp2 on Google App Engine that does memcaching. It is possibly the easiest example I could think of, that I could implement memcaching on Google App Engine.

The main confusion which arises when one starts to look into memcaching is that Google fails to show that memecaching has to be done after instantiating a memcache client object.

The source code for this application is available here and is self explanatory.

Questions, comments, doubts are welcome.