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I regularly complain about OpenTelemetry, so with an aim to be a less useless contributor, today I'm putting pen to paper. If you're an implementer, I ask you to read this and take away the personal bias you might have towards your work, and instead look objectively at the feedback being given.
Key concepts & much deserved YAML ranting
End-to-end documentation of a journey from no PCB experience to fabricating my own Linux-ready system that can boot the latest mainline kernel. This article is the recommended reading for someone building their first embedded Linux board. F1C100s SoC is used for this sample board.
As a consultant, I have been called in to review and, in many cases, replace dozens of half-finished, abandoned, and sometimes forgotten data infrastructure projects.
Note: code used in this article can be found on the Github repo jepsen-postgres-ha .
This is the story of an investigation conducted by Jochen Sprickerhof, Helmut Grohne, and myself. It was true teamwork, and we would have not reached the bottom of the …
Reduce Log Volume by 99% Without Dropping Data
Looking beyond the hype and explaining why microservices should nearly become extinct.
Trust me, there's a reason for this
Almost everyone I know who uses a computer, for...
my deployment platform is a shell script 2024-04-09 like many people, i fell in love with free software because i could install it. i'd come home from work and install a bunch of software. what fun! tee hee! a playground and i'm the prince! but eventually, relentlessly, it all starts to feel more like a horror show…
Learning about the subtle gotcha with ARG and FROM instruction ordering in Dockerfile definitions.
Docker Compose solves real problems in getting applications deployed. It causes problems when deploying many applications. We can do better.
While trying to build my Age Apple Secure Enclave plugin , a small Swift CLI app, on Alpine Linux , I realized that the Swift toolchain doesn’t run on Alpine Linux. The upcoming Swift 6 will support (cross-)compilation to a static (musl-based) Linux target, but I suspect an Alpine Linux version of Swift itself isn’t…
Using libblkio, QEMU Storage Daemon, and VDUSE
How I built an ML rig for training LLMs locally, exploring hardware choices, setup tricks, and lessons learned along the way.
Blog about Software Engineering
I will use this place to relate my geeky adventures in the world of gnu/linux, bsd, the internets, and other important things like windows managers and pretty colors. Basically, it's a place to expose and share with the world things I do on my computer.
Need to schedule tasks in PostgreSQL? Compare pg_cron for simple in-database scheduling with pg_timetable for complex workflows and multi-cluster orchestration.
In distributed systems, for instance when scaling out some workload to multiple compute nodes, it is a common requirement to select a leader for performing a given task: only one of the nodes should …
An example of how you can save money, simplify your architecture and speed up the development by going back to the basics and ditching the cloud, kubernetes and whatnot.
I have recently released an open source tool called sotrace . It maps out the .so dependencies for a binary or library, and presents th...
A deep dive into my home grown cocktail recipe app which speaks Tailscale natively using tsnet, and serves up delicious drinks direct to your tailnet. Libations is built with Go, Nix and Vanilla Framework.
