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In one of the past blogposts we have highlighted the journey for automation for engineers, who is willing to develop further outside of their core remit, such as networking, compute, or storage. In today’s blogpost we’ll provide some of examples how the different moving pieces are coming along together.
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In my blog post The uselessness of bash I made a tool to improve pipes in shell, to assemble a better pipeline.
It solves the problem, but it’s a bit too different, with its own language.
While complaining with some people at work that one of the main features of shell (the pipe operator) is broken, someone joked that it should be replaced by a protobuf based protocol.
But on second thought it’s not really a joke.
How about instead of this:
$ goodpipe <<EOF
[
["gsutil", "cat", "gs://example/input-unsorted.txt"],
["sort", "-S300M", "-n"],
["gzip", "-9"],
["gsutil", "cp", "-", "gs://example/input-sorted-numerically.txt.gz"]
]
EOF
how about this:
$ wp -o gsutil cat gs://example/input-unsorted.txt \
| wp -io sort -S300M -n \
| wp -io gzip -9 \
| wp -i gsutil cp - gs://example/input-sorted-numerically.txt.gz
It doesn’t use protobufs, but a simpler regular protocol. This in order to avoid well known bugs types. Before implementing any protocol also see formal theory and science of insecurity.
First I hacked it together in Go, but I think the main implementation I’ll maintain is the one I made while porting it to Rust, as a way to learn Rust. The Continue reading
A few years ago, I downsized my personal infrastructure. Until 2018, there were a dozen containers running on a single Hetzner server.1 I migrated my emails to Fastmail and my DNS zones to Gandi. It left me with only my blog to self-host. As of today, my low-scale infrastructure is composed of 4 virtual machines running NixOS on Hetzner Cloud and Vultr, a handful of DNS zones on Gandi and Route 53, and a couple of Cloudfront distributions. It is managed by CDK for Terraform (CDKTF), while NixOS deployments are handled by NixOps.
In this article, I provide a brief introduction to Terraform, CDKTF, and the Nix ecosystem. I also explain how to use Nix to access these tools within your shell, so you can quickly start using them.
Terraform is an “infrastructure-as-code” tool. You can define your infrastructure by declaring resources with the HCL language. This language has some additional features like Continue reading
https://codingpackets.com/blog/publish-docker-image-to-docker-hub
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Recently I’ve started listening to a new podcast all about the brain and behaviors called Hidden Brain. It’s got a lot great content and you should totally check it out. One of the latest episodes deals with complaining and how it can make us less productive and more likely to repeat patterns or shut people out.
Complaining is as old as language. I’m sure as soon as the first person to create communications around spoken words was able to teach another person one of the first things they did was complain about the weather or something they hated. Our mind is built to express itself about things we don’t like, such as bad drivers or silly behaviors at work.
The episode explores the ways that our brain can trap us in cycles of complaining simply for the sake of complaining. It also discusses how we should try to spend more time trying to be productive in how we address complaints. I’ve experienced this a lot in IT as well as in my career after being directly involved in IT and there’s a lot of merit in changing the way we complain about things.
Complaining without a suggested solution Continue reading