Full-Stack | Scott Miner

Job Grove

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Job Grove is a job board and aggregator that pulls job postings into a single, searchable feed. The front end is built with Vue.js and deployed on Netlify.

Features

Real-time job posts: new listings appear in the feed as they are published.
Aggregation: postings from multiple sources are normalized into one consistent card layout.
Accounts: visitors can sign up to save their place and personalize the experience.
Responsive UI: the layout adapts from phone to desktop.

What it demonstrates

Building a responsive single-page application in Vue.js, consuming external APIs, managing client-side state, and shipping a static front end to a CDN.

to try it out.

Jackets Store

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Jackets Store is a full-stack e-commerce proof of concept. A Vue.js storefront talks to a Django REST API that handles products, carts, orders, and user accounts.

Features

Product catalog with product detail pages.
Shopping cart and checkout flow from browsing to order confirmation.
User accounts for sign-up, login, and order history.
Payments as donations: the checkout processes a payment flow for demonstration purposes only. No physical items are shipped.

What it demonstrates

Designing a REST API with Django REST Framework, authenticating users between a decoupled front end and back end, and modeling the core entities of an online store.

to walk through the store.

Dev Blog (ASP.NET MVC)

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A developer blog I built from scratch on ASP.NET MVC. A RESTful C# backend manages posts and image uploads, and the application is deployed to Azure App Service.

Features

Post management: create, edit, and publish articles with a clean URL handle per post.
Image uploads handled server-side through a REST endpoint.
Server-rendered views with ASP.NET MVC for fast, indexable pages.
Cloud hosting on Azure App Service.

What it demonstrates

Server-side .NET skills: MVC architecture, REST API design in C#, file handling, and deploying a .NET web app to Azure. The blog is also where I write about ASP.NET Core topics such as setting up a development environment.

to read the latest posts.

eCommerce Microservices

Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

An e-commerce platform decomposed into independently deployable microservices. Each service lives in its own repository (wired in as Git submodules), owns its data store, and communicates through an API gateway and a message broker.

Architecture

Service	Responsibility	Storage & messaging
Products	CRUD API for the catalog with business-logic and data-access layers (EF Core) and xUnit tests	MySQL, publishes events to RabbitMQ
Orders	Order creation and querying, RabbitMQ consumers, Ocelot API gateway for cross-service calls	MongoDB, Redis cache
Users	Authentication and user retrieval with a Dapper data layer	PostgreSQL
Frontend	Angular 17 single-page app that talks to the services through the gateway	—

Deployment

docker compose -f docker-compose-build.yaml up --build builds and starts the whole stack with seeded databases for local development.
Kubernetes manifests under aks/ run every service in Azure Kubernetes Service or any other cluster.

What it demonstrates

Service boundaries and polyglot persistence, asynchronous communication with RabbitMQ, API gateway patterns with Ocelot, containerization, and orchestrating a multi-service system with Docker Compose and Kubernetes.