Green Vs. Brown Programming Languages
I’ve noticed something interesting about the types of programming languages people like. It’s something that doesn’t seem to come up in various discussions o...
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Building a Real-Time Application in the Phoenix Framework with Elixir
The Elixir language, along with the Phoenix framework, has been growing in popularity at a quick pace, and with good reason. Phoenix offers productivity lev...
Welcoming Wes McKinney as an advisor to Earthly
“When I learned about Earthly, I was excited to see innovative work happening in containerized build and testing automation.”
Addressing Slow Performance in Jenkins
There’s nothing more frustrating than a sluggish continuous integration system. It slows down feedback loops and prevents code from reaching production quic...
Understanding Bash
Bash scripts give you the ability to turn a tedious series of commands into an easily runnable and repeatable script. With many real-world use cases, like u...
Compiling Containers - Dockerfiles, LLVM, and BuildKit
How are containers made? Usually, from a series of statements like RUN, FROM, and COPY, which are put into a Dockerfile and built. But how are those commands...
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...
Build Your Own Ngrok Clone With AWS
Ngrok is a tool that allows you to create secure, publically accessible URLs for your locally running code.
Understanding Docker Logging and Log Files
Docker logging and its management are an important part of the containerization of your application. Once you’ve deployed your application, logging is one o...
How to Setup and Use Amazon’s Elastic Container Registry
A container is a simple unit that packages all your code and its dependencies so your application can run quickly and reliably from any computing environmen...
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.
What is Buildkit?
There is an excellent open-source project that you have probably used without realizing it. It’s called BuildKit, and it is what turns a Dockerfile into a D...
How to Man in the Middle HTTPS Using mitmproxy
Have you ever wanted to see what kinds of requests a service or application on your machine is making and what kind of responses it is getting back?