PinnedPublished inTom Harrison’s BlogManaging Microservices: Tyranny of Too Many ChannelsHow do we manage the explosion of signals that arise when we implement a microservice architecture?Feb 12, 2023Feb 12, 2023
PinnedPublished inTom Harrison’s BlogBash: Don’t Do ThisBash scripts can be terse and clever, or as dumb as a stump. I vote for dumb, as long as your intent is clear.Jun 7, 20224Jun 7, 20224
Thank you for the intro part -- I have used most of these operators but hadn't really grokked the…Aug 17, 2024Aug 17, 2024
Taskfile replaces make and MakefilesWe have built a set of tasks to streamline and automate our development that we run using Taskfile. It’s a great tool that we love.Aug 13, 2024Aug 13, 2024
Published inTom Harrison’s BlogThe Other AI: Self-Driving is HerePeople are sure that self-driving cars are a cute idea that might be real some time in the future. It’s actually here right now.Jul 30, 2024Jul 30, 2024
Nearly every item on this list is how I would go, too.Not sure about the network mesh -- to be sure a PITA to configure, but when you have 100 services many with 10 or 20 replicas, it's really…Jun 21, 2024Jun 21, 2024
We're on Python 3.12,Then again, all of our code runs in containers, so once we got it running locally, it would run wherever we deployed it with no issues…Feb 16, 20241Feb 16, 20241
A part of our system I inherited uses API Gateway to call Lambda functions.In the end, this turns out to be an absurdly complex and difficult to manage architecture. We used the Serverless Framework to handle…Feb 16, 20242Feb 16, 20242
Flask vs. Django: Why I Chose DjangoI was inspired to write this after a great conversation on Medium from an expert at Python and Django, Builescu Daniel who wrote an…Jan 26, 20243Jan 26, 20243
Super-helpful article -- thank you.As an aside, I started what seemed like a simple API framework app, so chose Flask. I guess Flask is pretty good for some use-cases, but…Jan 26, 20242Jan 26, 20242