How to make the Mac better for developers
What would I ask Apple for if I was on their Developer Pro Workflow team…
Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made
One surreal experience as my career has progressed is the intense feeling of deja vu you get hit with during meetings. From time to time, someone will mention something and you'll flash back to the same meeting you had about this a few jobs ago. A decision was…
DevOps Crash Course - Section 2: Servers
Section 2 of our DevOps Crash Course…
DevOps Engineer Crash Course - Section 1
The first crash course in how to successfully step into a DevOps role.…
TIL Command to get memory usage by process in Linux
If like me you are constantly trying to figure out using a combination of ps and free to see what is eating all your memory, check this out: ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size | \ awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; printf("%13.2f Mb ",hr) } { for ( x=…
TIL docker-compose lies to you....
You, like me, might assume that when you write a docker-compose healthcheck, it does something useful with that information. So for instance you might add something like this to your docker-compose file: healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "-L", "http://localhost/website.…
This Bloomberg Story Makes No Sense
Someone Is Making Something Up One of the biggest stories right now in the tech world is the bombshell dropped by Bloomberg that the biggest names in tech have been hacked. Not through a software exploit or through some gap in a firewall, but by the Chinese government infiltrating their…
Git Tips and Tricks
Some common Git tips and trips…