January, 2018 | Tim O'Hearn

The Phoenix Project Review

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Rating: ★★ Date Finished: January 29th, 2018 Reading Time: Ten days This is the most cliché book I have ever read. The Phoenix Project uses a contrived

“What the heck is this?” “Oh my god, who should we tell?” “Let’s run away and pretend we never saw it.” Uncovering an ecosystem of spaghetti-code bash scripts supporting production systems is equivalent to finding a dead body while you’re walking

I recently hit one hundred followers on Goodreads. I’m not sure what it means. Goodreads, with a user base purportedly in the tens of millions, is virtually unknown in the world of social media marketing. Performing a Google search for

The standard library ElementTree XML Parser is one of those packages that makes using Python such a dream. Sometimes, though, when you’re dealing with XML, you won’t always be able to ensure that what you’re pulling in is parseable. Having

2017 has come to a close and I have never been more fond of reading. This year, I finished my fifty-second book–Grocery–on December 31st at 11:45PM. I made my way through 15,000 pages while working full time and guiding a side

Docker Deep Dive by Nigel Poulton Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: January 10th, 2018 Reading Time: A day Docker Deep Dive (v4) is a fun and useful introduction to Docker. Learning by Google searches and Stack Overflow will lead to bad

I’ve been doing a lot of microservice work recently. Specifically, I’ve been building Flask apps and deploying them in Docker containers. As I’ve started experimenting with running these services redundantly, I’ve been faced with an interesting problem: how does one