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multi-headed

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/14

A long time ago, I named a tool Cerberus after the mythical multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld, as it was to inspect client systems configurations to prevent they would enter a bad state.

Since I need a multi-headed tool later on, below are some links on multi-headed (Polycephaly – Wikipedia) creatures to give me inspiration.

Some of them are centered around war, others around hell, are dragons or monsters, and a few are guardians. Later I will try to put a classification in a table or so.

The idea is to replace my current Apache TLS offloading (that uses letsencrypt/certbot for the certificates) with something else like an nginx one, and maybe even make the internal part TLS too (so it becomes TLS upstreaming) so these will come in useful too:

Instead of nginx, HAproxy might be a an option too, especially as it understands TCP traffic other than http much better than nginx:

This means I should first look into nginx vs haproxy – Google Search, for instance these posts:

–jeroen

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GitHub – Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds: A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/27

Since I will likely need something like this one day: [WayBack] GitHub – Nike-Inc/gimme-aws-creds: A CLI that utilizes Okta IdP via SAML to acquire temporary AWS credentials

I think I got this via Kristian Köhntopp a while ago.

–jeroen

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Incidents, fixes, and the day after – Booking.com Infrastructure – Medium

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/11

In larger teams, to handle Incidents, fixes, and the day after – Booking.com Infrastructure – Medium [WayBack] you escalate it through a set of carefully chosen phases.

  1. Starting the escalation
  2. Gathering the firefighters
  3. Going back to business
  4. Closing the escalation
  5. Working towards the permanent solution
  6. Postmortem retrospective

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Incident Handling und der Tag danach (Booking.com) – – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

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Why prod is down…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/18

From [WayBack] imgur: Why Prod is Down

Downloads:

Via:

–jeroen

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Fabric, Cuisine and Watchdog for server administration in Python

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/05

For my reading list: [WayBack] Fabric, Cuisine and Watchdog for server administration in Python.

It’s about these environments and tools:

–jeroen

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Yeller – The Worst Server Setup Mistake You Can Make

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/05

Always use UTC on your servers, as [WayBack] Yeller – The Worst Server Setup Mistake You Can Make: Setting the timezone to anything other than UTC.

Many many reasons. For me the number 1 is sanity.

–jeroen

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Friday Deploys, and other harmful BOFH memes – The Isoblog.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/05

The answer to the meme on the right:

If you are having problems deploying on a Friday, you will have them at any time of the week. Your processes are broken.

Source: [WayBack] Friday Deploys, and other harmful BOFH memes – The Isoblog.

via: [WayBack] Friday Deploys and other harmful BOFH memes – they need to die in a fire… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Kristian argues that people finding the meme funny should get fired.

I still find it funny. Both in a way that I’m surprised so many BOFH are still there, as well as being happy that on many occasions I’ve helped making this a thing of the past or at least make organisations aware of the deployment risks and how to cope with them.

Do I need to change? Definitely: life is all about learning new things every day and change because of that.

Do I need go get out of a job or a new job? Likely at some point because life is all about change. Hopefully I’ve learned enough by then to find another gig where – in addition to applying my tech skills – I can spread awareness and knowledge. And learn new things. Did I tell about life is all about learning?

Related: [WayBack] by michielrook.nl:

https://speakerdeck.com/mrook/i-deploy-on-fridays-and-maybe-you-should-too

Via: [WayBack] @michieltcs: I deploy on Fridays (and maybe you should too): https://speakerdeck.com/mrook/i-deploy-on-

–jeroen

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How much is Google Cloud Latency between Regions?

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/11

Interesting post which links to an on-line overview of the current latencies:

Does anybody know about similar information about other big cloud providers like Amazon and Azure?

–jeroen

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DBA Blog 2.0: Installing Zabbix into Azure using a MySQL PaaS

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/04

Interesting: [WayBack] DBA Blog 2.0: Installing Zabbix into Azure using a MySQL PaaS

–jeroen

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Start-up or Pokémon? Big-data or Pokémon?

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/17

Remember the introduction of Pokémon during summer 2016? Despite usage being far less by now ([WayBack] 80 Amazing Pokemon Go Statistics and Facts) you might still recollect the odd names the Pokémon Go characters in the Pokédex had: [WayBack] List of Pokémon – Wikipedia.

Back then I had the vague sense that some names reminded me of species, and others of companies. Both appeared to be true, for instance [WayBack] Seel looks awfully familiar to Seal. Domo has many meanings (including a Dutch dairy desert). Oh, and [WayBack] Gloom has quite a few meanings so I’m OK with being confused.

So I was amused bumping into these a while back: Pokémon names versus those of names of start-up and big-data companies:

The quizes also have very funny descriptions of what the companies behind the names stand (stood?) for, like “Hadoop is distributed system for counting words”.

Via many, including:

Maybe I should turn the GitHub repository in to a Google Assistant Trivia questionaire using a Google Sheet.

–jeroen

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