Simon Emms

TL;DR: Zigflow lets you write Temporal workflows in YAML, so you can focus on what happens instead of how to make it reliable.

I am a beekeeper.

Gitpod may have deprecated support for self-hosted, but that's no reason to let it die.

Hey Simon, I'm sorry to be sending this.

About 3 weeks ago, the technical lead of one of Gitpod's self-hosted customers messaged me saying: Hey Simon.

There is an accompanying GitHub registry with a working demo Serverless functions are a great way of building a scalable application.

There are certain things that, no matter how many times I do them, I always have to look up.

To see this in action, check out gitlab.com/MrSimonEmms/helm-repo Helm is a great way of sharing Kubernetes resources and making them reusable.

This post assumes some familiarity with Git.

R is a statistical programming language with a huge repository of tools to crunch numbers, manipulate data and do all manner of data science tasks.

2020-08-15: Added GoLang example This article assumes a degree of familiarity with OpenFaaS.

DevOps is hard.

Recently, I wrote about building Docker containers for different processor architectures in order to be able to run containers on Raspberry Pis and similar.

I've been a software engineer for a long time - getting on for 15 years.

Containers have revolutionised computing since they were first popularised by Docker in the first half of the 2010s.