TLDR We are switching from a source-available license, to an open-source license for Earthly. We started Earthly with the mission of bringing better builds to the world and to become the standard CI/CD framework that allows pipeline development locally a...
It turns out Awk is pretty simple. It has only a couple of conventions and only a small amount of syntax. It’s straightforward to learn, and once you underst...
Docker and Chef are two popular tools in the development world and are used extensively in build and deployment pipelines. However, even though they are use...
Remember when systems would go offline to implement changes and updates? Sometimes you still get emails from applications with notifications of downtime, ap...
Homebrew made some changes to where it installs packages if you are running it on a new M1 Mac, and these changes may throw you for a loop if you’re moving ...
How Much Can You Get For Free? Here at Earthly, we care about your CI/CD dollar. That’s why we decided to pit the free tiers of four of the top CI/CD plat...
Interviewing engineers is an impossible task. You have to use a few hours to figure out if a person will be a good employee for several years to come. No pr...
I’ve learned so much from watching other people code. It’s never a thing I’m specifically trying to learn. It’s more like someone is walking me through a pr...
TLDR: Go to https://earthly-tools.com/text-mode?url=https://yoururl.com to get a readable, plain text version of a webpage. Background We have this new...
Sometimes smart people working hard make things worse. The following story is based my recollection of some real events: Scheduling Work Problems A smal...
Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) principles offer multiple benefits to software organizations, including faster time to market, higher-qua...
Once you’ve determined that you want to use Kubernetes as your base for developing applications locally, it’s time to figure out which development solution ...
I’ve complained before about using YAML when a programming language is what’s needed. But, when you’ve got configuring to do, YAML is pretty useful. It’s so...
Welcome back to a series on AWS Lambdas. Today I’ll be running a full REST HTTP API in a single lambda. Also, I’ll discuss why you might want to do so – the...
Kubernetes networking enables the components that make up the Kubernetes ecosystem, like containers, pods, and services, to communicate effectively with eac...
There are many reasons engineers look to Kubernetes when running their workloads, like support for containers and orchestration. Another major reason for ch...
