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Jdk 11 Migration
JDK 1.11 is the next LTS (Long Term Support) Release. A lot of Enterprise Customers are still with JDK 1.8, but nowadays you need to provide migration path to JDK 1.11 (or to JDK 1.14 LTS). JDK11 will be supported by Amazon Corretto at least up to 2024, so it seems a good candidate for …
The lines of code that changed everything.
An article worth reading The Lines of Code That Changed EverythingApollo 11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of software that have transformed our world. Source: The lines of code that changed everything.
Pybash
Pybash is a python library to make python script as easy as in Bourne Again Shell (Bash). Bash scripting is very easy to setup. So we end up using it all the time for simple procedural script. Sometimes is it useful to have idempotent script, like Ansible and Saltstack teach use, this script should only …
How to monitor MySQL / MariaDB query progress
How to monitor MySQL / MariaDB query progressThe progress indicator of MySQL or MariaDB long-running commands and queries is extremely extremely and frustratingly coarse. In an index update I’m running now it was stuck in the same state for more than three hours. Thankfully, the pmonitor tool allows us to precisely monitor the progress of …
RetroGames TheC64 (BIG)
It is already history, and you can read my review there. But if you like to try it yourself, you can order the C/64 Replica below. PS: if you wait some time, I predict it will ha a sale price of 40% of more, in a couple of months…versus the current 104€ retail price.
Alexa Easy
Alexa Easy free you from your daunting social tasks. Let Alexa Easy take a pause (break up) with your partner or organize a funding event with guys you did not call in the last ten years, and regain credibility.Personal life mixed up with job responsabilities? Let Alexa Easy fire your best friends, with a nice hug. …
Git History Squash for fun and profit
Suppose you are developing a boring Jenkins pipline (like Jenkinsfile-s) with no time at all. You are forced to commit and then run the jenkins pipeline. Jenkins download the code from your LOCAL repository. To avoid commit& push roundtrip you are using the simple git daemon command to expose your local repository to jenkins. So …
Alexa Red
Alexa Red is a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application platform to manage your “red projects”. Let Alexa Red organize your work progress meeting, manage angry customers and regain credibility. Alexa Red cannot be stressed by customers, and will always have a nice word for them. Zen Mode – Now in preview: As your applications become more …
Avoid Kafka if unsure (think twice series)
Some co-workers started using Apache Kafka con a bunch of our Customers. Apache Kafka is a community distributed event streaming platform capable of handling trillions of events a day. Initially conceived as a messaging queue, Kafka is based on an abstraction of a distributed commit log[*]. To get this goal, Apache Kafka needs a complex …
Ansible rulez!
In the last weekend I needed to restore my RasperryPi service box. It is a raspberrypi 2 which mostly make backups of my blogs. Its microSD card gets corrupted, forcing me a full reinstall. I decided to try to make everything via Ansible. I have already a strong experience with Saltstack, another software used to …
The dark side of eLearning
My company gave me access to a bunch of Skillport course. Courses was on Kafka and Docker and was rather old (2015). But the very bad thing was the absolute shabby approach of the course. For instance to explain the use of Docker Label metadata (1 concept+ 1 command line example) Skillport proposed a 23 …
On Constants
I think constants are evil (just joking but….I will explain why). I am tired of seeing a lot of Java classes filled with the same constants repeated over and over again, instead of collecting them in a common file, which in C Language was called include files (ooooah!). Sometimes it is impossible to understand if …
Docker tips
Use docker in docker to drive docker from a container Working under windows, sometimes docker slow down. Sometimes you need to access to the MobyVM. With this line: docker run –rm -ti -v “/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock” -v /:/host docker sh you run a container which will removed upon exit. This container can access to docker daemon (via …
Rust Programming Language
I have done a quick peek of the Rust Programming language: it is very popular on Internet, it rivals with Go on the popularity score. Anyway, I find it too much “Haskell-like”, with heavy rules and concept.