Published articles
First Class Functions in Python
Categories: Hack, Learning | Tags: Programming, Python
I recently watched a talk by Dave Cheney about first class functions in Go. Python supports first class functions too, so can we use them in the same ways? Absolutely. I have been using Python for a…
Apr 15, 2019
Installing Kubernetes on CentOS 7
Categories: Containers Orchestration | Tags: CentOS, cgroups, DevOps, Infrastructure, Namespaces, Red Hat, VM, Ceph, CNCF, Docker, Kubernetes
This article explains how to install a Kubernetes cluster. I will dive into what each step does so you can build a thorough understanding of what is going on. This article is based on my talk from the…
Jan 29, 2019
Microsoft introduces Cloud Native Application Bundles
Categories: Containers Orchestration | Tags: CLI, Helm, Packaging, Docker, Kubernetes
At DockerCon EU 2018 in Barcelona, Matt Butcher, Principal Engineer at Microsoft and inventor of Helm, introduced CNAB, Cloud Native Application Bundles, a packaging format for distributed…
Dec 4, 2018
A CoreOS development cluster with Vagrant and VirtualBox
Categories: Hack, Infrastructure | Tags: Arch Linux, CoreOS, Linux, VirtualBox, etcd, Vagrant
Following CoreOS’s instructions on how to set up a development environment in VirtualBox did not work out well for me. Here are the steps I followed to get Container Linux up and running with Vagrant…
Jun 20, 2018
Guide to Keybase encrypted directories
Categories: Cyber Security, Hack | Tags: Cryptography, Encryption, File system, Keybase, PGP, Authorization
This is a guide to using Keybase’s encrypted directories to store and share files. Keybase is a group, file and chat application who’s goal is to bring public key crypto based on PGP to everyone in…
Jun 18, 2018
Scaling massive, real-time data pipelines with Go
Categories: Open Source Summit Europe 2017, Learning | Tags: Algorithm, Data structures, Go Lang, Pipeline, Protocols, Network
Last week at the Open Source Summit in Prague, Jean de Klerk held a talk called Scaling massive, real-time data pipelines with Go. This article goes over the main points of the talk, detailing the…
Nov 21, 2017
Yahoo's Vespa Engine
Categories: Tech Radar | Tags: Database, Tools, Elasticsearch, Search Engine
Vespa is Yahoo’s fully autonomous and self-sufficient big data processing and serving engine. It aims at serving results of queries on huge amounts of data in real time. An example of this would be…
Oct 16, 2017
