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March 22, 2020

Fedora on Dell XPS 15 9570 and 7590

Overview I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my XPS 9560 – outlined in my original guide – for two years now.  However, with the bulk of my work as a Java software engineer, I do large compiles dozens of times per day. I’ve recently found myself wanting for a bit more CPU and I/O horsepower than my […]

February 2, 2019

How to Save a Small Fortune by Buffering Less.

While working for a large client processing several petabytes of data per month, I had the opportunity to attack the primary ingest service with YourKit. This service is written in Scala and Java and runs on giant expensive AWS instances due mostly to the heap requirements, but also to keep plenty of CPU headroom as […]

January 26, 2019

gRPC Keepalives and Transport Closing Errors on AWS Network Load Balancers

tl;dr: Enable keepalives and permit without stream on both the client and server and make sure the keepalive time matches between clients and servers. We’re using gRpc in containerized applications written in four languages on AWS Fargate.  Our service location and load balancing method  is currently a combination of DNS and AWS Network Load Balancers. We’ve been plagued […]

December 16, 2018

Mapping MySQL binary columns to UUIDs with jOOQ

Working on a project using MySQL and Java, I quickly found myself missing the more robust SQL and data types of PostgreSQL. 🙂 With a conversion off the table, we needed a way to handle mapping MySQL binary(16) columns to Java UUIDs and back automatically. I was surprised not to find any ready-to-run examples out […]

July 6, 2018

AWS Secrets Manager as a Hiera Backend

We use both Puppet and AWS extensively. Historically, we’ve managed secrets with eyaml and git. This allows version control and recovery of secrets, but requires the decryption key(s) to be stored on the same disk as the secrets. We’ve evaluated Hashicorp’s Vault as a secrets management solution. While it is robust and full of appealing […]

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  • Fedora on Dell XPS 15 9570 and 7590
  • How to Save a Small Fortune by Buffering Less.
  • gRPC Keepalives and Transport Closing Errors on AWS Network Load Balancers
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