Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes

Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes

I am afraid to inform you that you have built a Kubernetes. I know you wanted to “choose boring tech” to just run some containers. You said that “Kubernetes is overkill” and “it’s just way too complex for a simple task” and yet, six months later, you have pile of shell scripts that do not work—breaking every time there’s a slight shift in the winds of production.

Tourtiere

Stashing a recipe for tourtiere (meat pie) I received from a friend.

Flour Tortillas

A recipe for flour tortillas - because my social media is a carbpalooza now.

Sourdough Part 2 - Bread

the recipe and process I use to make delicious sourdough bread. Also with pictures.

Sourdough Part 1 - Starter

My recipe for making a sourdough starter. With pictures!

Sourdough Part 0 - Intro

I’ve been making sourdough since before the pandemic. Here’s an introduction.

Prometheus Alerting Rules and Metadata

In which we discuss the complexity of building a useful alerting system for our HL7 messaging engine, where different systems have different priorities and thresholds.

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Like most hospitals, my employer has an HL7 interface engine. Ours is implemented on top of Red Hat (JBoss) Fuse, which combines technologies like the ActiveMQ message broker, and Camel integration patterns, into a robust engine that we can use for more than just HL7 processing.

Hello World

This is my first post to my new blog. Time to replace Wordpress (and by proxy, PHP) with something more secure.

Giving Hugo a try - this may change though.

The Falsehoods Series

A collection of things that programmers believe that aren’t actually true. Or are just more complicated than we pretend.