Month: October 2018
Pruning elastics with Kubernetes CronJobs
There was a time you just ran ‘crontab -e’ to make this happen. But, progress, are you still on my lawn? Lets discuss how to solve the specific issue of ‘my database fills up my disk’ in a Cloud Native way. So the situation. I’m using ElasticSearch and fluent-bit for some logging in a Kubernetes cluster.…
The chautauqua continues next week: meetup on microservices @ Auvik
I know you have all finished reading Zen and the Art now (and several of you have finished Lila), so you all understand what a Chautauqua is. We’ve been through a few now, and are starting to ratchet the learning up a little bit with this next one, hosted by our good friends @ Auvik.…
A purple monkey ate my homework? The inter-connectedness of cloud
So YouTube is down tonight. My money is on some nation-state-shenanigans with BGP routing table injection, but that is wild-speculation. So what does that have to do with my homework? Well, you see, I use G-Suite. And as part of that, Google Slides. And there’s this one slide I want to have a little audio-opener.…
Misguided auto-updates in a container world
Let’s say one day you are casually browsing the logs of your giant Kubernetes cluster. You spot this log message: “npm update check failed”. Hmm. Fortunately you have an egress firewall enabled, blocking all outbound traffic other than to your well-known API’s, so you know why it failed. You now worry that maybe some of…
The deflation of crypto-currency (stinking cesspool!) and crypto-kitties: an update
Earlier I wrote about cryptokitties. The concept is you design a virtual ‘tamagotchi-like‘ cat and then try to sell it to suckers customers via Eth. Looking back in on them it seems that they are somehow anti-inflationary. The selling (well asking!) price of a cryptocat has gone up by about the same amount (expressed in…
