Fresh/Brewed

This is not a sharp picture - not even that good. I was flying early in the morning friday July 19th when I realized something was really wrong. The ticket counter was in a flurry of checking lists and creating paper tickets. I would learn within 30m that Spirit Airlines was SOL in the airport and the TSA was checking my paper ticket against printed manifests. I couldn't be prouder of my own teams at work for having dug in and weathered the Crowdstrike storm - it's a testament of having skilled, available and committed SREs. By the time I landed and was back at my desk to help, the main production systems were healthy. I can't really speak to the rest - but my day wrapped later than usual friday but it was an amazing team effort and really, I couldn't be prouder of the people I work with at WellSky

Dapr Part 6: Workflows

Published May 24, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

One feature of Daprwe’ve yet to explore is Azure Logic App workflow support. Let me explain a bit since I think the offering might be confusing. Microsoft open-sourcedAzure Logic Apps, or at lea...

Crypto Mining Intro (not for profit)

Published May 13, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

All the chatter about dogecoin and then my colleagues chatting about mining got me interested in seeing how hard it is to get started in crypto mining. Today we’ll check out mining on Windows with...

Harbor: Getting Started with on Prem Container Registry

Published May 7, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Harbor is an open-source solution and graduated CNCF project. It’s matured to having a solid helm chart and deployment model. In the past, I have tried to launch instances but due to it’s heavier ...

Azure DNS

Published Apr 30, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

Azure DNS is a simple hosting service Microsoft offers in Azure. While it does not have TLD registration built in, it does serve and manage namespaces pointed to it. This can be used for a variet...

Dapr Part 5: Observability, Telemetry and Tracing

Published Apr 16, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

One of the features of Dapr.io we have yet to explore is the logging and performance management component. Dapr uses OpenTelemtry to forward tracing data to the tool of your choice.

Dapr Part 4: Service Discovery and Bindings

Published Apr 15, 2021 by Isaac Johnson

We’ve covered pubsub and secrets in detail. Daprcan also provide service-to-service discovery and routing much like istio (less the encryption). Dapr’s binding component allows us to route to exter...