April, 2018 | Tim O'Hearn

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook Review

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, and Ben Whaley Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: April 25th, 2018 Reading Time: Several months; still use for reference I read this book cover to cover and

A long time ago, I took over a web app that was one of the most critical parts of our technological risk management platform–the trade monitoring UI. I made changes on a rather dilated release cycle, usually pushing non-critical enhancements

What have I been doing in the week since I wrote part one? Docker. A healthy amount of it at that. As much as I’d love to proudly shelve Docker in Practice between all the other books in my apartment

A rare thing happened to me on Friday–I ran out of work. I didn’t run out in the sense that I sprinted to the elevator and down Jackson Boulevard. That happens with some frequency. I ran out of work in

Docker in Practice by Ian Miell and Aidan Hobson Sayers Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: April 6th, 2018 Reading Time: An evening A Docker book published in May 2016 comprised of four sections and one hundred and one “techniques,” or real-world

I’m Tim O’Hearn and I like microservices. My preference isn’t a proclamation that the tradeoffs between microservices and monolithic web applications always favor the former, just that I’ve had a better experience implementing microservices for the problems I’ve had to