Today I was diving deeper into GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Efficiency tricks, after I discovered resuable job attributes with !reference last week. Resource optimization is a big topic, and next to ideas on failing fast, I was looking into more parallelization. Luckily GitLab introduced this feature last year. Parallel Matrix…
Today I wrote some Python code and figured that I do not have linting available with pyflakes in CI/CD. Been reading this great blog post and built a short snippet: stages: - lint - test lint-python: stage: lint image: python:latest script: - pip install -r python/requirements.txt…
I've seen many changes and best practices in the past 15 years in monitoring. The shift from traditional host/service monitoring to microservices and distributed services has been the most impactful for me. It has been a wild ride to learn Kubernetes and cloud-native environments myself, with the help of…
Vacation ends, and you'll want to share pictures with friends and team members. Since work and private accounts are separated, you'll navigate to a separate browser window to access your private iCloud account to download the pictures. The downloaded pictures are stored in the raw HEIC format. This format is…
Polywork ... my initial thought was "the missing glue between Twitter and LinkedIn". It is more than that! What Michael (@dnsmichi) said… ⬇️⬇️ ‘The missing glue between Twitter and LinkedIn’. And I’d like to add… ‘with an extra sprinkle of multicolor and sass’ 😅💁🏾♀️ https://t.co/xySKASsRBT — Polywork (@PolyworkHQ) June…
Good audio with a crisp sound makes recorded talks, workshops and live streams a joy to listen. I recently recorded a talk for DockerCon, and was not amazed by the sound quality of the Bose NC 700 bluetooth headset. I got a nice speakers gift from AllDayDevOps - the JLAB…
I've seen a question on the GitLab forum about managing Personal Access Tokens (PATs) with the API. While trying things, I had a peek into filtering the output and quickly getting access to values and IDs for automation. This blog post covers the basics around listing PATs, working with jqfilters…
Use the /todo quick action in an issue to add it as a To-do, and follow-up later.…