Mar 21, 2022

Issue #2: Blockchain, Taskrunner, Terraform and AWS CodeDeploy

Weekly newsletter of Ruan Bekker 🇿🇦

In this week’s issue I spent some time revisiting open-source exception monitoring, spent more time on blockchain work. Task runner saved me as everything is defined in yaml.

As for my Github projects, I decided to manually build a In-Place upgrades deployment with AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodePipeline to record a step-by-step example, and added some new bits to my Terraform Localstack repo.

Setup Glitchtip Exception Monitoring on Docker with Traefik

Glitchtip is a open-source exception monitoring system, it’s similar to Sentry, which collects errors reported from your applications and helps you discover errors in real time and also helps you to understand the health of your applications.

containers.fan

Install Dogecoin Core on a Raspberry Pi

How to install dogecoin core on a raspberry pi and running a testnet, and how to use the json-rpc to interact with the blockchain and your wallet node.

blog.pistack.co.za

MongoDB Cheatsheet with PyMongo

A tutorial we will get hands-on experience with MongoDB using the PyMongo package using Python.

sysadmins.co.za

Speed up Maven Docker builds with Cache

This post will demonstrate how to speed up your maven builds using docker and buildkit as long as the docker build on the same docker host.

containers.fan

Task Runner With YAML Config Written in Go

Task (aka Taskfile) is a task runner written in Go, which is similar to GNU Make, but in my opinion is a lot easier to use as you specify your tasks in yaml.

blog.ruanbekker.com

Install Nodejs on Linux Using NVM

In this post we will install Nodejs using Node Version Manager (nvm), which allows you to install and use different versions of node via the command line.

blog.ruanbekker.com