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DevFest.MN 2025

What an amazing DevFest.MN 2025! Huge thanks to the DevFest.MN organizers for putting on such a great event. I had a blast presenting "Let's Build an MCP Server" and getting to meet so many great folks in the local developer and SRE communities. Looking forward to next year already!
Valkey

Valkey

Published Apr 16, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

We spoke last week about Redis (the company) abandoning Open-Source licensing for it’s product, Redis (the software). I first heard about Valkey, the larger of the new forks, from The Stack which ...

OS Apps: Movary and Moodist

OS Apps: Movary and Moodist

Published Apr 11, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today I wanted to checkout a couple Open-Source app’s that have been on my list for a while.

Redis Forks

Redis Forks

Published Apr 9, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Oh, Redis, how times have changed. Once the darling of the Open-Source community, they made waves on March 20th this year when Rowan Trollop, the CEO of Redis (co), said that future versions of Re...

Useful OS Apps: Siyuan and Heimdall

Useful OS Apps: Siyuan and Heimdall

Published Apr 4, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll check out a couple interesting Open-Source containerized apps. Siyuan is a small interactive Notebooking app. I see it as a rich collaboration space akin to Google Wave or Jupyter. A...

Raven: CICD Scanning for Github

Raven: CICD Scanning for Github

Published Apr 2, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Raven (Risk Analysis and Vulnerability Enumeration for CI/CD) is a solution for scanning Github repos for vulnerabilities. It can scan a repo, an org or all of a user’s Github repos then store the...

Github Actions, Gitea, Forgejo, AzDO Runners

Github Actions, Gitea, Forgejo, AzDO Runners

Published Mar 28, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

With a new cluster comes the need to create a new Github action runner controller. The new method is using an “ARC” setup that can scale to 0.

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