Björn Stierand

At least there is an option to use straight lines. Curved lines in an UML diagram look really strange to me. The implementation is far from perfect, but gets the job done for now. #work #plantuml #uml #development

Real software architectures, documented with the arc42 template. Helps you jumpstart your own documentation.

When I'm finished with my current Arc42 book, this seems to be a good follow-up read. #documentation #work #arc42

#work #devops #terraform

NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool. Initially conceived by the network engineering team at DigitalOcean, NetBox was developed specifically to address the needs of network and infrastructure engineers.

#work #network #admin #ipam #dcim

A developer evangelist is a spokesperson, mediator and translator between a company and both its technical staff and outside developers.

If you think this would be a good role for you, here's the developer evangelist handbook which gives you some great tips on how to do this job.

#development #work

Choria makes installing The Marionette Collective easy and secure for users of modern Puppet.

You could be up and running in under 30 minutes, Puppet compatible defaults means there is very little to configure.

Seems to take the pain out of setting up MCollective. #puppet #mcollective #work

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So true. Awesome comic by Monkey User. #fun #work #productivity #gtd

SPC Results provide a source of comparative storage performance information that is objective, relevant, and verifiable. That information will provide value throughout the storage product lifecycle, which includes development of product requirements, product implementation, performance tuning, capacity planning, market positioning, and purchase evaluations.

#storage #work #benchmark

A software system is made up of one or more containers (web applications, mobile apps, desktop applications, databases, file systems, etc), each of which contains one or more components, which in turn are implemented by one or more classes (or code).

#software #architecture #work

Micrometer provides a simple facade over the instrumentation clients for the most popular monitoring systems, allowing you to instrument your JVM-based application code without vendor lock-in. Think SLF4J, but for metrics.

#monitoring #work #development #java

The Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various logging frameworks (e.g. java.util.logging, logback, log4j) allowing the end user to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.

#development #java #logging #work

ditaa is a small command-line utility, that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art into proper bitmap graphics.

#ascii #work #documentation #asciidoc

Postmortem on the database outage of January 31 2017 with the lessons we learned.

#incident #work

A good example for runbooks. #work #runbook #admin

Increment is dedicated to covering how teams build and operate software systems at scale, one issue at a time. In this, our inaugural issue, we focus on industry best practices around on-call and incident response.

#ebook #work

Rubrik Cloud Data Management delivers automated backup, recovery, archival, search, cloud, and development in a simple, scale-out platform built for hybrid cloud.

Buzzword-compliant. Looks nice, though. #backup #datamanagement #cloud #work

Das Ziel dieser Studie ist daher, eine aussagekräftige und belastbare Beurteilung der Sicherheit einer virtualisierten Infrastruktur auf Basis von KVM zu erstellen.

#work #security #virtualization #kvm

#devops #work

Goss is a YAML based serverspec alternative tool for validating a server’s configuration. It eases the process of writing tests by allowing the user to generate tests from the current system state. Once the test suite is written they can be executed, waited-on, or served as a health endpoint.

#work #administration #yaml

Project Harbor is an enterprise-class registry server that stores and distributes Docker images. Harbor extends the open source Docker Distribution by adding the functionalities usually required by an enterprise, such as security, identity and management.

#docker #container #cloudcomputing #work