Software Engineering - Rambling Ideas

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Simple Licensing Validation Scheme Using JOSE

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Simple Licensing Validation Scheme Using JOSE

Leveraging common and standardized technologies to design and implement a scheme to verify licenses on the client side in isolation.

Better AWS CloudWatch Exporter: Ingestion Architecture Overview

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Better AWS CloudWatch Exporter: Ingestion Architecture Overview

How to leverage AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams to build a Prometheus exporter for AWS metrics: overall ingestion architecture, pros and cons versus using the CloudWatch API.

The Unsatisfying State of Prometheus-Based Monitoring of AWS Infrastructure

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The Unsatisfying State of Prometheus-Based Monitoring of AWS Infrastructure

Given that Prometheus and AWS are both industries standards, once would - incorrectly - assume that it would be easy to ingest AWS metrics into Prometheus. Here I explore the main flaws in the current tooling to ingest CloudWatch metrics into Prometheus.

.NET Disposable Pattern Guidelines - How Good Are They?

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.NET Disposable Pattern Guidelines - How Good Are They?

After having to look into the recommended way of implementing the Disposable pattern in .NET/C#, there's a lot about it I find non-optimal. Ranging from the philosophical to actual implementation decisions.

Surgically upgrading yarn managed Javascript packages

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Surgically upgrading yarn managed Javascript packages

Upgrading just a single library in Javascript might appear to be a trivial task. But there are a few non-intuitive elements that make it a bit more complicated.

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New project: backup-to-dropbox - Release 0.2.0

Version 0.2.0 of backup-to-dropbox has been released. New features include GPG encryption and PyPI installation.

Writing Maintainable Code Tips: API Models != Domain Models

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Writing Maintainable Code Tips: API Models != Domain Models

Using API models as your domain models in your business logic is not a good idea and leads to hard-to-maintain systems.

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Database transaction handling in C++ systems

Architectural approach of a way to handle transactions in C++ systems. The approach aims to be as decoupled and non-invasive as possible.

Setup NAT Network for QEMU in Mac OSX

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Setup NAT Network for QEMU in Mac OSX

Step-by-step guide on setting up a bridged NAT network for QEMU in MacOS

How to set up your own MongoDB sharded cluster for development in one host

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How to set up your own MongoDB sharded cluster for development in one host

Steps required to set up a MongoDB shared cluster environment in a single host in Linux.

Validating a SSL certificate in Python

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Validating a SSL certificate in Python

A way to perform SSL certificate validation in Python using PyOpenSSL and is multiplatform.