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Posts from 2018

atexit() stage right. Or how my Python program leaked file descriptors.

Mar 21, 2018 6 min read

A year and a half ago I started using prometheus and grafana to graph metric data. This combination is incredibly powerful and I have been absolutely blown away by the amount of actionable intelligence I've been able to convey in our dashboards. Prometheus has a number of exporters which can be used to retrieve metric data from remote endpoints and stash it in its highly optimized time series database. There are exporters for MongoDB, Postgres, vSphere, Nginx, HAProxy, JMX as well as numerous other applications…

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Notes from episode 14 of TGIK: Serverless with OpenFaaS

kubernetesMar 12, 2018 2 min

Over the past few months I've been trying to learn everything there is to know about Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an amazing technology for deploying and scaling containers though it comes with a cost. It's an incredibly complex piece of software and there are a ton of bells and whistles to become familiar with. One way that I've found for coming up to speed is Joe Beda's weekly TGIK live broadcast…

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Notes from episode 13 of TGIK: Serverless with Fission

kubernetesMar 11, 2018 3 min

Over the past few months I've been trying to learn everything there is to know about Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an amazing technology for deploying and scaling containers though it comes with a cost. It's an incredibly complex piece of software and there are a ton of bells and whistles to become familiar with. One way that I've found for coming up to speed is Joe Beda's weekly TGIK live broadcast…

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Notes from episode 12 of TGIK: Exploring serverless with Kubeless

kubernetesMar 10, 2018 3 min

Over the past few months I've been trying to learn everything there is to know about Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an amazing technology for deploying and scaling containers though it comes with a cost. It's an incredibly complex piece of software and there are a ton of bells and whistles to become familiar with. One way that I've found for coming up to speed is Joe Beda's weekly TGIK live broadcast…

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Notes from episode 28 of TGIK: Exploring CockroachDB on Kubernetes

kubernetesMar 3, 2018 3 min

Over the past few months I've been trying to learn everything there is to know about Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an amazing technology for deploying and scaling containers though it comes with a cost. It's an incredibly complex piece of software and there are a ton of bells and whistles to become familiar with. One way that I've found for coming up to speed is Joe Beda's weekly TGIK live broadcast…

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