Musings and Mutterings through the Machines

Interesting Links for June 21st, 2020

It has been almost a month since I posted links and my pile is growing, so it is time to post!

Re: clean up kernel_{read,write} & friends v2: Opinion on line breaks. Personally, I think there is a case of breaking up lines within reason, particularly if you are writing some gnarly shell scripts.
Overview of python dependency management tools: Situation: there are now. . .
Wheel vs Egg: I mis-read this as chicken or egg.
Scaling open source Puppet: I cut my teeth on mainstream automation with Puppet, so I am always thankful for that; therefore, I try to pay attention to the Puppet ecosystem as much as I can. For traditional configuration management, you can't go wrong with Puppet.
A Nix terminology primer by a newcomer: At some point, NIX is going to be more mainstream, so likely you need something like this page to figure out what the heck it is.
From 6 weeks to 90 minutes: let Terraform do your work: A engineers' journey in automating their deployment process, which can be useful to anybody who is stuck doing things the manual way.
Ruby vs Crystal Performance: I like the idea of Crystal and I look forward to seeing how it will progress.
Creating a Multi-AZ NAT Gateway with Pulumi: I always tempted to see if I can build infrastructure with native code. If Pulumi comes out with a Ruby version, I might just do it.
PHP Turns 25: Yes PHP is still going strong.
An intro to Go for non-Go developers: I should be writing more Go code. . .

Linux networking: To route or to ip route? : Personally, I prefer ip route.
mkdir: Nice little project for building a CI pipeline.
3 steps to successful cloud architecture : Some business-level discussion on how to build your cloud environment.
How we use HashiCorp Nomad: In the age when everybody seems to be rushing into Kubernetes, it is nice to see that there are some viable alternatives.

Nothing new as of this time to post.

Those Win9x Crashes on Fast Machines…: Or how to not scale your software.
Inodes and the Linux filesystem: Inodes always trip developers who writes lot of small files and successful "ran out" of space.

Build Physical Projects With Python on the Raspberry Pi: I really don't do enough interesting things with my Raspberry PIs. When I have some time, I am going to try out some of the things described in this article.
Intel's Xeon NUC 9 Pro kit is what we want to see in a 'Mac Pro mini': I would be interested to seeing something like this for my next Mac desktop. I mean, I like my Mac Mini, but I like an easier way to expand my hardware too.
Review: Edge Desk is the collapsable, work-from-home desk you're looking for: when you get to be my age, standing desks becomes more and more attractive. This is mildly expensive, though.

How to Play Devil's Advocate in a Productive Way: My manager does it a lot and while it does drive you a bit crazy, it does ultimately help keep things in focus within my team.
Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People: As somebody who now has a direct report, I get increasingly conscious on how I interact with that person due to our power dynamics. So this article speaks to me on a more personal level.
What Happened When the Office Came Home: Even though eventually I may go back to the office, this pandemic really makes me think about moving to a place with a separate room for an office.
Sysadmin careers: Is your sysadmin job going away?: tldr; they are not.
Differences Between Junior DevOps and Senior DevOps Engineers: If you want to know how to progress to a Senior DevOps role, this may give you some ideas.

Video: See How ‘The Mandalorian’s Groundbreaking ‘Stagecraft’ Technology Probably Works: I keep forgetting to post this, so here it is. With the COVID-19 pandemic still on-going, I suspect this will be widely used within the next year.