Browsing a localhost server from any device in your LAN
For most of us, a local development server proves to be good enough to get our day to day coding done. Even mobile device displays can be tested quite well on Chrome (or other b...
Captain’s log
I'm Fernando and this is my captain's log, my little corner of the internet.
Elastic Beanstalk Apps using Docker Containers
This is a walkthrough of lessons learned from hosting a project on Elastic Beanstalk using Docker Containers as deployment strategy. I’ll link to documentation as much as possib...
Customizing Jekyll Themes
After migrating my website/blog to Jekyll on GitHub pages I was left with this lingering feeling: The theme I was using felt too “stock/off-the-shelf” even after a few color twe...
Reminders
Ideas pop in and out of existence unexpectedly, that’s my experience at least. This one professor from college always comes to mind when an idea is lost because I failed to writ...
PostgreSQL backups to S3 with retention limits
This is a bit of an update on the latest version of Martilla. The feature introduced that I’m more excited about is the ability to limit the retention of your backups.
Headless Chrome - Dual mode tests for Ruby on Rails
Headless tests are necessary for CI environments and very useful for unobtrusive local development. No need to ditch the driver that directly controls the browser though, there’...
Martilla - A simple backup tool for simple everyday use
Martilla is a project I’ve been working on recently. It’s a CLI tool to help automate database backups. It’s main objectives are to remain modular, configurable and simple to un...
GitHub pages & Jekyll
Instead of hosting this site myself any longer I’ve finally decided to move over to GitHub pages. This probably isn’t an interesting blog post for anyone other than myself. I ju...
Kubernetes integration with Rake tasks
Activek8s is a gem that relies on certain conventions to provide a thorough Kubernetes integration on a set of Rake tasks. The gem is a byproduct of a project that makes use of ...
AKS easy as ABC
This is a “walkthrough cheatsheet” from my initial experimenting with AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service). Everything here can be run using Azure’s Free Account trial.
Tying Let's Encrypt and Docker Swarm together
It’s no secret that Kubernetes has seen a booming interest in the past year or two. It’s also known that its learning curve is steep and its complexity remains relatively high. ...
Learning Rails in 2017
So far this year has been surreal & hectic to say the least, and we’re basically halfway through. I started a new job late last year, which I expected to be challenging for ...
Publishing services using docker-compose and NGINX with HTTPS
This post will break down an example setup to deploy multiple HTTP services secured with TLS using docker-compose and an NGINX reverse proxy. I already had an SSL certificate fo...
Swarm2k
Open-source software is a beautiful thing. Whether you’re coding, documenting, giving feedback, etc. there is something bigger than you out there. We live in a time where we can...
Lightning talk
Something big went down last Tuesday, at least for me. Not only @mattfgl gave an amazing talk on kubernetes but I got to step in front of a room packed with fellow Docker enthus...