Monitoring APC UPS Units with Prometheus on Raspberry Pi
2020-02-20
Infrastructure
Observability
I’ve recently implemented Prometheus so I can monitor my new KVM host which replaced my old VMWare ESXi hosts. It occurred to me that maybe I could monitor my APC...
Running KVM on Debian Buster
2020-02-08
Infrastructure
I’ve been wanting to move from ESXi to KVM for a while for a few reasons and finally this weekend I’ve started trialing the migration process.
Travel Log 2019
2019-12-31
Travel
Summary: Countries Visited: 9 - Austria, Thailand, The Maldives, Switzerland, Singapore (seven times), Macau, Croatia, USA (twice), Australia Countries Transited: 5 - Austria, Singapore, Bosnia Herzegovnia, Germany, Taiwan (four times)...
Silencing Maven in AWS CodeBuild
2019-11-18
Devops
Cloud
Aws
One of the things you will probably want to deal with early on when running Maven builds through CodeBuild (or any other CI tool) is stopping Maven from displaying download...
modver Versioning in AWS CodeBuild
2019-11-17
Devops
Cloud
Aws
How to quickly and easily use modver versions in your AWS CodeBuild builds.
Running AWS CodeBuild Locally
2019-11-16
Devops
Cloud
Aws
I’ve been using AWS CodeBuild a lot in the past couple of weeks. I really like the elegant simplicity of it: take a buildspec.yml and a containerized build environment and...
modver
2019-10-23
Software engineering DevopsHere’s the versioning scheme I’ve used in my CI builds for many years:
Modular Product Code with the OPMC Model
2019-10-18
Software engineering
In this post I’d like to describe the approach to structuring product code that I’ve personally used since the early 2000’s and which I rolled out to the Orion Health...
Controlling a Three-Channel LED Strip with an ESP32
2019-08-18
Hardware
Iot
Today I put together my first circuit and code for driving a three-channel 5V RGB LED strip. This is part of a larger project to put a set of lighting...
Centralized Logging for Kubernetes with Elasticsearch
2019-08-15
Software engineering
Presentations
This evening I gave a presentation on building a centralized logging infrastructure for Kubernetes using Elasticsearch and Kibana at the meetup of the local Elasticsearch user group.