Saturday, February 22, 2020

Galaxy's Edge 2: Galactic Outlaws by Nick Cole and Jason Anspach


Interesting turn of events in this great story line. 4/5 stars.

Galaxy's Edge: Attack of Shadows by Nick Cole and Jason Anspach


Non-stop close-quarters combat, 4/5 stars.  Fun.  I don't like the mechs or telekinesis. And the science (celestial mechanics) is crap.

The Meeting by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth


Catching up on the collected works of Frederik Pohl, and this one was ok, 3/5 stars.

StarSight by Brandon Sanderson


Meh.  Sanderson is a lazy writer and keeps morphing his magic system to account for a plot element he wants to add, 2/5 stars.  Don't start reading this series.

Aliens, Travelers, and other Strangers by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky


Great science fiction from the Strugatsky brothers that we missed because of 20th century politics. 4/5 stars.

Another Open Policy Agent application for k8s


Preflight is another kubernetes configuration checker that uses open policy agent.  The libraries included are a great set of policy checks for your YAML.

DevOps Days in NY is March 3-4


DevOpsDays in New York on March 3-4 has a great set of talks in the program.

Google Go Language advantages for cloud


Another Go evangelist explains some of the powerful features and reasons Go is a good choice for cloud development, especially for cloud infrastructure code.

Infrastructure code (Terraform) is still code and needs code maintenance


Just as you must refactor and maintain your application code, so too should you carefully refactor your terraform code.

Migrating from Jenkins to Concourse


There are too many lighter-weight, container-oriented continuous integration and continuous delivery tools to count and they are exploding.  This story about adopting concourse and replacing Jenkins is a great example.  The nice part about concourse is that it can be plugged in to many, smaller developer testing tasks such as git merges.