DevOps

Nautomation: Pumping the Brakes on Automation

This post has nothing to do with the sea I’m really into automation. I’m of the opinion that the media spends so much time highlighting hypothetical Artificial Intelligence scenarios instead of the concept of automation because the sci-fi scenes that

In January 2018, I thought that maybe it was time to start looking for a new job. My new title at work was DevOps Engineer and before that, I was a Software Engineer. I had given myself a Biz Dev at my

Static program analysis is a code quality inspection that is performed without the codebase needing to be executed. It is most commonly used to check code’s conformance to standards and detect errors. Because the program under test does not need

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

Using Vegeta to Load Test Microservices and Autoscaling Policies

Over the weekend I found myself on a plane from Zurich to Chicago. While in Switzerland, I became aware of an issue related to a microservice I maintained in which it would stop serving responses and need to be restarted.