Software Engineering and Stuff

This article is my review of the book How to Take Smart Notes.

Prometheus is an Open-Source monitoring system and time-series database. In this post, I am going to dissect some of the Prometheus internals – especially, how Prometheus handles scraping other components for their metrics data.

I recently finished reading How to Read a Book.

I didn’t read this book with programming in mind. However, while reading it I kept thinking that we could apply the same approach to reading and understanding a programming project.

I have had a dream for a while now: to start brewing my own beer.
It’s not that I drink lots of beer. More that I like good beers, and those tend to be the craft ones. So I wanted to better understand how that was made, by making my own.

Warning: The following essay is purely a work of fiction. Any resemblance with existing products, open-source projects or wales is pure coincidence.

Kubernetes is a container orchestration system that originated at Google, and is now being maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. In this post, I am going to dissect some Kubernetes internals—especially, Deployments and how gradual rollouts of new containers are handled.

I have recently been experimenting with Kubernetes, starting with a managed cluster.
Quickly enough, I’ve wanted to try setting up my own cluster though.

I just got married!
You know, the thing you do once in your life, where you spend a whole year (sometimes more) preparing a single day. Well, we did it!

It is common knowledge that Heroku has a fair number of Erlang components, we even published a book.
When I joined, 3 years ago, I had barely heard about it.
But as I tried to get a better grasp on how the platform works, I wanted to learn how some of those erlang components work.

Just like in 2015, I’ve kept habit of reading for an hour before I start working every weekday.

This year, I’m only writing about the technical books I’ve read. The fictional ones I read in the evening are a recreation, and I’m not keeping track of what I read this year.