Fresh/Brewed

This is not a sharp picture - not even that good. I was flying early in the morning friday July 19th when I realized something was really wrong. The ticket counter was in a flurry of checking lists and creating paper tickets. I would learn within 30m that Spirit Airlines was SOL in the airport and the TSA was checking my paper ticket against printed manifests. I couldn't be prouder of my own teams at work for having dug in and weathered the Crowdstrike storm - it's a testament of having skilled, available and committed SREs. By the time I landed and was back at my desk to help, the main production systems were healthy. I can't really speak to the rest - but my day wrapped later than usual friday but it was an amazing team effort and really, I couldn't be prouder of the people I work with at WellSky

Valkey

Published Apr 16, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

We spoke last week about Redis (the company) abandoning Open-Source licensing for it’s product, Redis (the software). I first heard about Valkey, the larger of the new forks, from The Stack which ...

OS Apps: Movary and Moodist

Published Apr 11, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today I wanted to checkout a couple Open-Source app’s that have been on my list for a while.

Redis Forks

Published Apr 9, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Oh, Redis, how times have changed. Once the darling of the Open-Source community, they made waves on March 20th this year when Rowan Trollop, the CEO of Redis (co), said that future versions of Re...

Useful OS Apps: Siyuan and Heimdall

Published Apr 4, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll check out a couple interesting Open-Source containerized apps. Siyuan is a small interactive Notebooking app. I see it as a rich collaboration space akin to Google Wave or Jupyter. A...

Raven: CICD Scanning for Github

Published Apr 2, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Raven (Risk Analysis and Vulnerability Enumeration for CI/CD) is a solution for scanning Github repos for vulnerabilities. It can scan a repo, an org or all of a user’s Github repos then store the...

Github Actions, Gitea, Forgejo, AzDO Runners

Published Mar 28, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

With a new cluster comes the need to create a new Github action runner controller. The new method is using an “ARC” setup that can scale to 0.