Repeatable Systems

The practice of writing code has been changing fast.

At Mozi, we needed to connect a new Elixir Phoenix LiveView app to an existing Go backend.

If you work with Protocol Buffers (protobuf), you can really save time, boredom, and headache by parsing your definitions to build tools and generate code.

This post covers how to get a personal Kubernetes (K8s) cluster running on an instance with a public IP address, with HTTPS support, on the cheap.

Distributed systems pose all kinds of challenges.

At Community.com, we had a problem where a bunch of workers needed to pick up and process a large amount of data from the same DB table in a highly scalable manner, with high throughput.

Apache Spark is a perfect fit for processing large amounts of data.

I have been lucky enough to be healthy so far and have been using lockdown time to get back into electronics and microcontrollers, a hobby that is very compatible with being stuck at home.

A kernel “bug fix” that happened at the end of last year may be killing the performance of your Kubernetes- or Mesos-hosted applications.

We needed a specialized load balancer at Nitro.