Ian Lewis | English Blog

As many others have done, I’m going to write a blog post reflecting on the last year and looking forward to the new year.

Bash is the black sheep of programming languages and yet every backend or DevOps engineer needs to deal with it throughout their career.

AI integrated development environments (IDEs) are all the rage.

It’s safe to say that Twitter has changed a lot from when I first started using it.

Bluesky continued their trend of replicating X/Twitter’s features in a slightly different way and just released their new account verification feature.

The io.Reader interface is a small interface that defines a single Read method.

APIs are really useful for pulling in data from different sources for analysis in tools like Datasette or spreadsheets.

Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, Public Domain

Today is my last day as a Google employee.

GitHub recently introduced Artifact Attestations, a beta feature that enhances the security of Open Source software supply chains.

Code signing is often used as a method for ensuring that software artifacts like binaries, drivers, and software packages haven’t been modified by a third party before they are used.

Go is a really powerful programming language that allows you to write concurrent code that is still easy to understand.

This is the fourth and last part in a four part series on container runtimes.

This is the third part in a four-part series on container runtimes.

This is the second in a four-part series on container runtimes.

One of the terms you hear a lot when dealing with containers is “container runtime”.

When checking out the nodes of your Kubernetes cluster, you may have noticed some containers called “pause” running when you do a docker ps on the node.

For those that want to dive right in, I have put up a tutorial and some sample manifests on GitHub.

Recently I saw a tweet from the awesome Amy Codes (I really hope that’s her real name) about Kubernetes Pods:

This is the fourth post in a series on making smaller Docker images: static binaries.

For those of you that don’t know there is a new Python API client in the kubernetes-incubator project: client-python.

kubeadm is a new tool that is part of the Kubernetes distribution as of 1.4.0 which helps you to install and set up a Kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes includes a feature called services which serve as a kind of load balancer for pods.

I’ve seen a lot of questions about Kubernetes health checks recently and how they should be used.

The Google Cloud Platform Load Balancers are based off of technology that Google developed for our applications.

This is the second post in a series on making smaller Docker images.

I joined Google one year ago today.

UPDATE (2015/10/15): HTTP/2 is now enabled by default for http servers in tip and will be released as part of Go 1.6.

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The normal way to test Django views is via the test client.

One of the advantages that Kubernetes provides is the ability to manage various environments easier and better than you have been doing.

Cross posted on medium

As some of you may or may not know, I joined Google as a Developer Advocate on the Google Cloud Platform Team in January.

When figuring out how I wanted to deploy my website I had a few things that I knew I wanted.

I have been looking at JavaScript templating libraries recently for a personal project and I’d like to write about my thoughts here.

Python descriptors allow you to create properties on python objects that are the result of executing some code.

Since everyone else was doing it, I thought I’d write one up too.

App Engine provides a pull queue API for accessing, leasing, and processing tasks outside of App Engine.

PyCon APAC 2013 is over!

Backbone.js is a neat little JavaScript model framework.

Update: App Engine 1.7.7 final has been released and is available here: https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads.