When building highly available services, it's common to need to lock a resource every once in a while. You can use Redis and a simple wrapper to create a heartbeat/watchdog that will keep a lock alive as long as a task is running, and automatically unlock the resource if the process dies.
After hearing a lot about Zig and its build system, I decided to try it out on the Piper TTS open source project, with some positive results.
Devops jobs are in demand, but not everyone has a clear idea about what is expected. The job can be pretty broad but all of it involves infrastructure, cloud technology, and configuration management.
It sounds complicated but "interior mutability" just means that safety is checked at runtime instead of at compile time. This is useful for allowing the same object to be potentially modified by multiple threads safely in the context of a web application.
Nextcloud is easy to set up with Docker and provides a really nice self-hosted alternative to Dropbox or Google Drive.
You can leverage Rust's safety and performance to make Devops life easier. As long as your coworkers are cool.
Whether you're on AWS, GCP, Digitalocean or whatever else, having a healthy cloud architecture will make you much less susceptible to random failures and will enable your system to adapt to changes without downtime.
Ever ask yourself, "how do I use async streams in Rust when using the AWS Rusoto library?" Of course not. Here's how to do it anyways.
There's a lot of open source projects and technology out there that I'm happy to have access to.
Thanks to Peewee's ability to easily make custom fields, we can easily create a new kind of datetime field for Sqlite that is timezone aware.
Python deprecating libraries no one uses shouldn't be causing an existential crisis.
Doordash is using your tips to help pay their drivers as little as possible. A 7 billion dollar company can afford to pay its drivers properly.
Making Windows a little bit more like Mac OS and Linux to leverage ssh-agent for our passphrase-encrypted SSH keys.
Traefik is a really nice reverse proxy that can automatically fetch valid certs from Let's Encrypt. Let's use it!
After a nonzero amount of playing around, I finally got my Rust project to actually start to work in a way that I like.
My first attempt at using Rust in practice has not gone as simply as I would have liked.
When untested code fails, any number of things could have gappened. When tested code fails, exactly one thing happened: an expectation was incorrect.