FDA approves emergency use of chloroquine. The fools! Even the paper recommending consideration has repeated, emphatic warnings about the "ethical implications" of killing patients with the treatment. Why not Remdesivir?
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Another crutch for the insanely complex YAML in Kubernetes
If you are starting to use Helm Charts to create your complex, long kubernetes configurations and you stumbled across Helmfile to accelerate your adoption, these added training wheels for helmfile are helpful.
using deprek8 and ConfTest to prevent regressing to old APIs
Tyler Auerbach explains a simple application of the deprek8 Open Policy Agent tool for verifying you have not regressed your APIs to older versions. I have personally needed this test once and did not have it.
Tracing and Observability
Sanjay Nair takes us on a journey through the concepts of tracing through the lens of the OpenTracing standard and the zipkin implementation of distributed tracing. Light on some important concepts but a decent, quick intro.
Message Passing Middleware Resurection
In the olden days of the 1980s, "middleware," including messaging middleware was all the rage. BEA systems, Vitria Systems, Tibco, and a slew of others competed to sell horizontally-scaled messaging middleware to the largest enterprises. eBay's "Business Events Service" (BES) bus is a 1980's based publish/subscribe system based on Oracle and Vitria middleware. There are still many advantages of message-passing middleware system patterns over our current RESTful stateless HTTPS fashion. A few modern, containerized versions of those venerable systems are coming back into vogue. One such system is NATS.io. Malta-based consultant R.I. Pienaar has written a great 5-part series on how NATS.io is applied in his "choria" puppet orchestration system. What is old is new again!
Galaxy's Edge 7: Turning Point by Jason
This part of the ongoing saga is light on "magic," heavy on close-combat, and more fun, 4/5 stars.
xenophobia, nationalism on the rise
The Guardian is reporting a new wave of Chinese government official policy of Xenophobia to blame all wrongs on foreign devils. The Global Village is in decline.
"the focus on foreigners – surprising given that 90% of imported cases were Chinese passport holders, according to the country's foreign ministry – is the leadership's attempt to shore up its image."
And volunteers are needed to shore up labor shortages in farms to complete the harvest in Israel under continued rocket fire from Gaza.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Cases, Tests, Hospitalizations
I am waiting for a tracker with a variable radius from a lat-long (geographical location) as we had in the 1960's for H-Bomb blast, damage, and radiation damage.
'Murican Makers making medical makeshift magic
Surface Transmission
Johns Hopkins has published an interesting guide to which surfaces are more or less effective at transmission and how to maintain safe near-sterile techniques while handling fabrics, cardboard, plastics.
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