Month summary — May 2023

Learn some tips, tricks, and tools for mastering the command line from GitHub’s own developers.

Our philosophy to scaling is simple, avoid premature optimization.

Stories of failure can reveal important insights about an applicant’s maturity, resilience, temperament, openness to learning, and ability to receive critical feedback — qualities that won’t appear on a resume or cover letter and probably won’t be brought up by the applicant unsolicited.

This post describes how I turned my Android device into a web server which can be accessed from a public URL, and how you can do it too.

Hello! I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on for a long time: a free guide to implementing your own DNS resolver in a weekend.

Here’s a keynote I gave at RubyConf Mini last year: Learning DNS in 10 years. It’s about strategies I use to learn hard things. I just noticed that they’d released the video the other day, so I’m just posting it now even though I gave the talk 6 months ag

An analysis on boredom in engineering productivity and how it can lead to deeper innovation.

Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source project that allows you to define a specific role (e.g., “book market analyst”) and a bunch of goals (e.g., “research the most successful sci-fi novels of 2022”, “summarize them”, “save the summary to a file," etc.) and let GPT-4 automatically create and perform all the necessary tasks that are needed to achieve your goals.

As with previous software reviews, this is going to be an opinionated overview.

In this tutorial, you will discover how to change a nested for-loop to be concurrent or parallel in Python with a suite of worked examples.

In this article, we’ll look at a few ways of limiting concurrency in asycio, and find out which one is best.

This simple Django project is an excellent template for your future projects. It includes everything you need to quickly set up a quality technology stack and start developing your web application’s business logic, skipping all the complex deployment issues at an early stage.

Literally Automate the boring stuff with Python, allows the user to record his mouse and keyboard actions and reproduce them identically as many times as he wants.

This course provides an introduction to container technologies, with a particular focus on Docker and container orchestration using Docker Compose.

Curated list of resources on HashiCorp’s Terraform.

A Markdown browser for your terminal

Flux is a tool for keeping Kubernetes clusters in sync with sources of configuration (like Git repositories), and automating updates to configuration when there is new code to deploy.

The 12-factor methodology is programming language agnostic and works with any combination of backing services.

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications.

This repository contains various use cases of Kubernetes Network Policies and sample YAML files to leverage in your setup. If you ever wondered how to drop/restrict traffic to applications running on Kubernetes, read on.

Good Tech Things are comics, videos, flowcharts, and infographics handcrafted by Forrest Brazeal.

Unwind from your busy schedule with a smile.