A Technical I.T./DevOps Blog
“If you learn nothing else from training, it is very important to learn that your limits are seldom where you think they are.” (Page 94 of Starting Strength.)
When challenged at work, be it debugging a program or getting a server or pod to work properly, sometimes it makes sense to escalate the problem or ask for assistance. This is true for lead architects, I.T. vendors,
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Continue reading “Top Five Reasons To Ask For Help When Working in I.T.”
Python is a great language.
On 11/10/15 we found an error on this Python documentation site. Here is what we saw for the endswith function documentation:
The Syntax for the “endswith” function, on the face of the documentation, involves “startswith”. We updated the site by clicking the “Edit on GitHub” link. We corrected it on 11/10/15. Hopefully someone will approve this change and the canonical syntax in the documentation will be corrected.
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1. Generic API Question
What are the HTTP operations associated with the acronym CRUD?
2. OpenStack API Question
Assuming a verbose amount of logging has been preconfigured, does the API log for glance ordinarily capture glance activity from the CLI (commands that bypass horizon)? As a hint, the default location of this log is this: /var/log/glance/api.log
3. OpenStack API Question
The “Create Image” feature in Horizon is an API call with an underlying “Post” call.
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Java source code is compiled into bytecode. Bytecode, when run, is executed by the processor. Sequences of bytecode go through processors, and on occasion these sequences must be analyzed for developing new Java software. Java Enterprise Edition (the programming language of choice for many businesses) is owned by Oracle. However, Oracle is not always the best creator or custodian of documentation for Java. Here is an example (as of November 2015) taken from Oracle’s
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There are many different configuration management tools. These programs promote the management of servers either through the release of code or through the deployment of infrastructure patches. They can do more than that. Commonly their utilization facilitates the transfer of files as well as the modification of existing files. Four of these configuration management (CM) tools that are very popular among modern enterprises include Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and SaltStack. This post will briefly compare and contrast some aspects of the tools themselves.
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