“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.” – William_Ellery_Channing Docker containers and images are all well and good for things like isolation, consistency, and relatively straightforward scalability. But what if we have a need to remember things between container runs such as populating a
“The abstract kills, the concrete saves.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath This is part of a series of posts on Network Sockets. Last time we covered sockets in general (Network Sockets). Today’s tutorial will focus on the process of creating a Network socket between a single
“The network is the computer.” - Scott McNealy This page is a basic introduction to network socket programming in general. Network Socket Definition According to Wikipedia a network socket – hereafter sometimes simplified as only “socket” - is defined as: A network socket is a software structure within a network node
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account. Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code Before committing that final version of your pull or merge request, it is often useful to know how to use a feature of git called interactive rebasing. According to the documentation, rebasing is just
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” — Peter Drucker Update - Aug 2021 Here is a great article on the tussle between Agile and Waterfall methodologies. As a long-time fan of the Toyota Production System it is a fascinating read. Waterfall
“In the early days of the personal computer, there were many choices of operating system; today, there are many solutions available to choose from for a virtualization strategy.” ― Matthew Portnoy, Virtualization Essentials Recently at my job I have been dragged back re-entered the world of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They
“Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.” - Jesse James Garrett This took me longer than I care to admit to figure out. Hence I wrote this tutorial in the hope of saving someone out there
Written By Michael Day The fallacies of distributed computing are a set of assertions made by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems: The network is reliable; Latency is zero; Bandwidth is infinite; The network is secure; Topology doesn't change; There is one administrator; Transport cost is
Written By Michael Day “Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.” -- Robert A. Heinlein I have been using protocol buffers on and off for around 10 years. The Wikipedia page is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers and the documentation is at: https:
Introduction Python’s argparse module makes parsing command line arguments a breeze. The argparse library allows: * Positional arguments * Customization of prefix characters * Variable numbers of parameters for a single option * Subcommands I’ll be doing this in Ubuntu 18.04, but this should apply to all Linux distributions. Since Python
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. – Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe <Reference Container Setup article that you did last time on ghost.io.> The book referenced below is: Docker Deep Dive: Zero to Docker in a Single Book, Nigel Poulton. https://learning.oreilly.com/library/
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. – Yoshio Taniguchi Docker has taken the world by storm. Initially released in 2013, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software) it has grown to be a major contributor to OS-level_