Procedural Smiles - Animating SVG with pure JavaScript
I recently needed to be able to generate a simple face image, with the face being able to scale from happy to sad. (Why I needed to do this is a long story!) This gave…
Patching Kubernetes Resources in Golang
Recently I needed to be able to quickly adjust the number of replicas in a Kubernetes Replication Controller. The original solution I'd seen pulled down the spec, modified it, then updated it. There's a better…
mongo-monitor - a simple CLI to monitor your MongoDB cluster
The mongo-monitor CLI is a lean and simple tool to check the status of a MongoDB server or cluster. The code is on GitHub: github.com/dwmkerr/mongo-monitor Here's how it looks in action: In…
The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
En Español | Reddit Thread | Hacker News Thread Microservices became a very popular topic over the last couple of years[1]. 'Microservice madness' goes something like this: Netflix are great at devops. Netfix do microservices. Therefore:…
Effective Shell Part 3: Getting Help
This is the third part of my Effective Shell series - practical examples of ways to be more efficient with everyday tasks in a shell. Part 1: Navigating the Command Line Part 2: Become a…