Core Competencies for Devops Engineers
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.
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Rust Interior Mutability with Async_std and Tide
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.
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Setting up Nextcloud on a VM or Raspberry Pi, Backed up with Restic
Nextcloud is easy to set up with Docker and provides a really nice self-hosted alternative to Dropbox or Google Drive.
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Rust for Devops
You can leverage Rust's safety and performance to make Devops life easier. As long as your coworkers are cool.
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Signs that your Developer Culture is Unhealthy
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.
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Rust Async Streaming with Rusoto
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.
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Tech I'm Thankful for in 2019
There's a lot of open source projects and technology out there that I'm happy to have access to.
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Making Timezone-Aware Datetimes in Peewee ORM
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.
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Pointless Fanfare around Python Deprecating Unused Standard Libraries
Python deprecating libraries no one uses shouldn't be causing an existential crisis.
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I'm Not Supporting Companies like Doordash
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.
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Windows, Chocolatey, Git Bash, Ssh-agent and Visual Studio Code
Making Windows a little bit more like Mac OS and Linux to leverage ssh-agent for our passphrase-encrypted SSH keys.
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Traefik, Let's Encrypt and Docker Compose
Traefik is a really nice reverse proxy that can automatically fetch valid certs from Let's Encrypt. Let's use it!
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The Grass is Sometimes Greener - Success with Rust
After a nonzero amount of playing around, I finally got my Rust project to actually start to work in a way that I like.
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The Grass is Always Greener - My Struggles with Rust
My first attempt at using Rust in practice has not gone as simply as I would have liked.
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High Quality Code
When untested code fails, any number of things could have gappened. When tested code fails, exactly one thing happened: an expectation was incorrect.