Summer seems like a great time to declutter and get rid of things that are no longer needed. Following spring cleaning, you take a fresh look at what still is lying around. Dead Code Such as the code that is no longer used. It was added for that one customer, who ended up leaving later … Read more
How much work do you do that doesn’t really require your full attention? How much is repetitive? Let’s start with a small example. When you check your email, there will invariably be some messages in there that you do not care about. We have built machines, in the form of spam filters, to help filter … Read more
Today we take a look at Docker image layers.
Obviously, there was not a post on Monday. This is the only post today, and there will not be one on Friday. I’m taking this week as a bit of downtime. Also, the week of June 29 will not have any content published as well.
Today I want to take you through a journey of investigating metrics provided by Instana’s REST API. The code samples and outputs will be from a Jupyter notebook. Requirements Of course, to really follow along with the examples, you will need to be a customer of Instana, so you can query for metrics. Hopefully this … Read more
We are in a situation where we have been through quite a few rapid changes while working towards getting things set up in a cloud provider. This rapid-fire change means that a lot of the documentation we had written previously is now out of date. It is the worst kind of documentation, because it now … Read more
I have recently been re-introduced to Jupyter Notebooks. If you are not familiar with this tool, here is the description from their website: The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical … Read more
This is expounding a bit more on last week’s Hammock Driven Development post. This one will deal more with taking longer breaks (vacation or holiday). I typically don’t take many breaks. When I do, it is rarely actually for vacation purposes. It is usually in order to get more time at home, to work on … Read more
Are you driven by fear? In the Midst of a Pandemic We are still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and so fear is a common topic today. Fear inevitably comes out when faced with such a situation. It is a fearful time. Yet, we do not need to be driven by fear. Take … Read more