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31 May, 2019

In an effort to inject some life back into this blog, I’m opting to do something relatively lazy and start posting semi-regularly with the odd link to anything that I’ve found of value or interest. I’ve stolen the name (although it’s an obvious one) from Daring Fireball and it’s inspired to some degree by Scott Lowe’s “Technology Short Takes”.

• Angle Grinder. A CLI tool for manipulating logfiles. If you’ve ever wanted to quickly construct some ad-hoc live-updating log reporting in your terminal but didn’t have the data available in something like Elasticsearch, then this might be for you.

• Reproducible Linux and macOS setups using Nix - use the Nix language to declaratively describe your system configuration. I had NixOS on my workstation for a time (until the SSD it lived on died) and since then I’ve been meaning to take another look at applying some of the basic principles to other distributions or to my Mac.

• mstat - measure memory usage of a program over time. Another useful utility for those ad-hoc situations that you might find yourself in where you need to take a closer look at memory usage.

• Configuring Kubernetes with CUE. Some discussions within the KUDO community recently led me to take a look at a new language called CUE. Here’s an excellent introduction from Gareth Rushgrove.

• Predator - distributed performance testing platform for APIs. It even supports DC/OS!

• Kubernetes Development Stats Dashboards. I only found about this one very recently - it’s sort of analogous to Stackalytics.