On YAML Discussions
My article about how YAML makes a bad programming language 1 generated a lot of great discussions online. To clarify, YAML, when used as the syntax fr...
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Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in
So I’ve been using my new M1-based MacBook Pro for a couple of months for a mix of development, email, and other things an open-source maintainer does day-t...
INTERCAL, YAML, And Other Horrible Programming Languages
In 1972, two students learning FORTRAN came up with a fantastic new programming language called INTERCAL.
Monorepo vs Polyrepo
The decision of whether to use a monorepo or a polyrepo structure for your source code can be a very emotional (maybe even religious!) battle. On its surfac...
5 Blogs for Scala’s Birthday
The public release of Scala was 17 years ago today. The language and its community are certainly not standing still, so I’ve put together a list of my favo...
Top 3 Resources For Learning GoLang in 2021
Why Learn Go If I were a system administrator looking to learn a new programming language it would be Go.So many of our tools including Kubernetes, Prome...
Migrating Your Open Source Builds Off Of Travis CI
Starting in early December, a mad dash has been underway to migrate open-source projects off of Travis CI. What happened and where should you move your proj...
Unit Testing vs Integration Testing
In 1998, Kent Beck wrote sUnit, a unit testing framework for SmallTalk. Beck later ported this framework to Java as jUnit. From there, xUnit frameworks sp...
You’re using docker-compose wrong
Tell me if this sounds familiar? You were introduced to docker-compose either by choice or by force. You’ve been using it for a while, but you find it clunk...
Technology choice? Don’t be weird
Here at Earthly, we are building an internal platform on AWS using EKS. I talked to our lead architect Corey Larson about the decisions and trade offs he i...
Building on Kubernetes: Ingress
Here at Earthly, we are building an internal platform on AWS using EKS. I talked to our lead architect Corey Larson about the decisions and trade offs he is...