Habitat, by Chef
·2 mins
One of the talks at the recent London DevOps meetup was about Habitat, a new product from Chef.
Blogs
2016
Why your master datastore should be immutable
·3 mins
Thinking about how your master dataset is stored and managed is arguably the most important part of architecting a data-driven system. Your master dataset is your source of truth. An issue here, be it hardware failure, human error, or something else, could easily result in irreparable damage to some or all of your data.
Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Cutty Sark
Some photos from my day visiting the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Cutty Sark.
Automated deployments of this site with Wercker
·2 mins
Update: I’m now using BitBucket Pipelines instead.
Winter Granola Recipe
I’ve recently starting making my own Granola.
Getting around the Amazon S3 rewrite rule limit
·1 min
I mentioned a few weeks ago that whilst moving my blog to S3 I hit a hard limit of 50 redirects, meaning I would break some URLs if I made the move.
Amazon S3 rewrite rule limit
·1 min
I’m in the process of moving this site to Amazon S3, rather than hosting it myself on a VPS.
2015
Container Camp London 2015
·7 mins
Some notes after attending this years Container Camp in London.
Getting started with Finagle
I’ve been looking at using Finagle as a web endpoint for a side project app.
What Color is Your Function?
·1 min
An excellent essay by Bob Nystrom on the concepts of asyncronous programming, and how various programming languages apply these concepts.