Month: September 2018
The spirit of optimism is alive in uptown waterloo
Recently I (as a taxpayer) and many of you paid $25K for a ‘2001-style-monolith’ that hangs out on King + Erb street in uptown waterloo. You can tell the folks who designed it are optimists. The yearly max is 500K. Today (as of noon) we had 5. Its September, I suspect the number will be…
Increasing the usefulness of your Kubernetes Ingress logging
Like most cloud folks you are probably using Kibana + Elasticsearch as part of your log management solution. But did you know with a little regex-fu you can make that logging more interesting? See the kibana expansion in the image, the URI, host, service, etc are all expanded for your reporting pleasure. First, lets install…
How to avoid being logged, Kubernetes-style
So you have a K8S cluster. Its got a lovely Ingress controller courtesy of helm install stable/nginx-ingress. You’ve spent the last hours getting fluent-bit + elastic + kibana going (the EFK stack). Now you are confident, you slide the user-story to completed and tell all and sundry “well at least when you’re crappy code gets…
How cloud storage services can be like an airline sandwich: complex pricing and purchase
Many industries over time have discovered that a simple buying experience leads to more revenue. Consider the battle McDonalds goes through. They started with a small menu. Over time it grew and grew, and periodically they remove a whole bunch of items and knock it down to “a #6 combo please”. They don’t want you…
lte+: amazing in high noise
I remember this first big game I went to where I was hoping to use mobile data. It would have been late 90’s and on a mobitex-rocking blackberry 950. And, didnt’t really work there in rural Pennsylvania with ~120k folks around. Fast forward to this weekend. The 3rd game (Vikings vs 49’ers), theres about 65k…
