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

Google Gemini Code Assist

Published May 2, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

At Google Cloud NEXT, they announced their Co-Pilot equivalent, “Gemini Code Assist”. GCP GCA is free until July so there is no reason not to check it out.

Getting started with Zarf

Published Apr 30, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I came across Zarf from this Help Net Security review. It is based on an intriguing concept - a suite, driven with YAML manifests, that can bundle a variety of package types into a single archive ...

OS Apps: Weather

Published Apr 25, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I recently came across a fun TWC containerized open-source app that simulates The Weather Channel from 80s and 90s using real forecast data from api.weather.gov. They had removed the audio to avoi...

OS Apps: Yal and Trillium

Published Apr 23, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

YAL, or “Yet Another LandingPage” is a simple but functional landing page we can host and configure with some simple JSON. We’ll check that out in Kubernetes by making a quick manifest and applyin...

Microsoft Garnet, an Open-Source Redis drop-in replacment

Published Apr 18, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Continuing our trend from last time, let’s look at another Redis fork/option. This one comes from Microsoft and is named Garnet. Like Valkey, it’s compliant with existing Redis clients.

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 ...