Richard Clayton
Stumbling my way through the great wastelands of enterprise software development.
WebSequenceDiagrams.com TypeScript Client
https://gist.github.com/rclayton-the-terrible/493cd0811542ff9693ac02746517ba71
TL;DR - TypeScript Client Gist: https://gist.github.com/rclayton-the-terrible/493cd0811542ff9693ac02746517ba71
If you are not familiar with WebSequenceDiagrams, it's an excellent tool for creating sequence diagrams for planning software flows. If you are not familiar with sequence diagrams, a quick Google search will . . .
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Kube-Native Workflows with Argo
Stitching Docker containers together to get stuff done fast!
About a month ago, was looking for a tool to help automate some of the analytic jobs our data scientist built in Python. My goal was to automate the following process:
- Execute Python jobs that analyze the day's activities, producing a CSV output.
- Create a new table in Postgres (that hold the CSV data).
- Insert the . . .
Posted in: architecture
Container Services: Logging and Reporting
Logging and Exception Reporting are two obvious operational features every service must include. As we learned in the last post, Application Support in Docker-based Microservice Environments, building and deploying microservices makes implementing log infrastructure significantly more difficult.
The most difficult problem DevOps . . .
Posted in: architecturemicroservices
Use State Machines!
FSMs are not as complex as you think and they make your code better.
What is a State Machine?
Finite State Machines (FSM, or in the context of this post, simply "State Machines") are a methodology for modeling the behavior of an entity with an established lifecycle. The lifecycle is defined by an enumerated set of states known at the time of implementation (this is where the term . . .
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