Published Nov 22, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Today we will explore using Aiven.io and their managed Kafka and Kafka MirrorMaker service. Aiven integrates with five clouds; AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean and UpCloud and has VPC Private endpoin...

Published Nov 15, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Podman has been out for a while, but just recently they put out a Desktop front-end with Podman Desktop. It’s Open Source and has pre-built binaries for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Published Nov 9, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Cypress.io is a browser based test automation startup based in Atlanta, GA. Founded in 2015 by Brian Mann and Randall Kent, they saw a gap in front-end test automation tools and built their own Ja...

Published Nov 4, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Having to replace some cheap smart plugs that all failed, I figured it might be worth getting some that we could program.

Published Oct 31, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

Harbor has been my preferred on-prem Container Registry but time and time again, it crashes on the database.

Published Oct 25, 2022 by Isaac Johnson

I did something dumb. I bumped a power cord. As I left for a camping trip, I must have inadvertently bumped the magsafe connector on the Macbook Air that serves as the primary node on the cluster....