PinnedThe long journey of “filling the blanks”In my 10+ years of work life I have always been busy with work. I did learn many new things of course during my time though as the years passed a growing concern began to bubble up as I conducted interviews for my team. People had missing bits (sometimes critical)…Certification2 min readCertification2 min read
Oct 10Kafka to Redis with Kafka-Connect: Capturing Redis Key Events -2In part 1 of this series, we got everything up and running and Redis was sending key events. However, kafka-connect could not create keys with a TTL hence, we will process Redis key events and add a TTL to the new keys using a small go app. Goals: Read Redis…Tech4 min readTech4 min read
Oct 5Kafka to Redis with Kafka-Connect: Sending Redis Key Events -1Let’s build a system where every Kafka message is transferred to Redis, with minor custom modifications, and we are able to be notified of key creation and expiry on the Redis side by any listening app we create. Sounds fun right? This will be the first part of the process…Tech11 min readTech11 min read
Published inStories from the Herd by Tucows·Feb 13Using Go for Encrypting & Decrypting DataWe use Go a lot for almost everything. A while back, we had the need to expose relatively important bit of data in Redis and naturally, we had to encrypt the data. …Tech5 min readTech5 min read
Aug 2, 2022Collection of Things About GitHub WorkflowsGoal: This post aims to fit right into that experience gap between a new starter and intermediate GitHub user. Post will be a collection and summary of all of the GitHub workflow related things that require time finding, testing and getting to work into a single document. …Tech9 min readTech9 min read
Jul 7, 2022Those Settings and Extensions in VSCode (for Go)Yes, those settings and extensions that are used often (at least I do) but always forgotten during development. Well, you don’t have to remember what you forgot anymore, at least for Go development. Here is the list of stuff I use. The main language extensions are not listed since they…Vscode Extension5 min readVscode Extension5 min read
Feb 24, 2022Making a VM Use Host’s VPN ConnectionThis sounds suspiciously specific yes but I needed a VM to connect to my computer’s VPN. Suprisingly difficult to find around so I decided to post it here in a compressed form. Get your favorite VM setup and add this network to it, Next, find your ip;Tech2 min readTech2 min read
Feb 16, 2022Vault Part 9 - Deeper Look Into TokensGoal: This post aims to provide a deeper look into Vault Tokens as part of a series of posts starting from here. What we need Running Vault, preferably in dev mode. See Part 1 for installation if it doesn’t exist. Tokens We have been throwing around tokens left and right but let’s look at…DevOps10 min readDevOps10 min read
Feb 16, 2022Vault Part 8 - Vault Authorization: Policy Path TemplatingGoal: This post aims to provide a brief look into Vault policy path templating as part of a series of posts starting from here. What we need Running Vault, preferably in dev mode. See Part 1 for installation if it doesn’t exist. Policy Path Templating “So, why is this not in the policy article” is a…DevOps4 min readDevOps4 min read
Feb 16, 2022Vault Part 3 - Deeper Look Into Secrets EnginesGoal: This post aims to provide a deeper look into Vault Secrets Engines as part of a series of posts starting from here. What we need Running Vault, preferably in dev mode. See Part 1 for installation if it doesn’t exist. Secrets Engines Secrets engines are components that generate, and encrypt secret data for an…DevOps4 min readDevOps4 min read
