After recent licensing change from MPL to BUSL, a new Open Source form of Terraform – OpenTofu – has been created and moved to Linux Foundation. Now, a while ago ElasticSearch’s license was similarly changed from Apache-2.0 to ELv2. That prompted AWS to create a fork – OpenSearch – still licensed with Apache-2.0. While this… Continue reading Why Terraform is not like ElasticSearch
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My CS Masters Degree from UIUC is now Official!
My talk at OWASP Ottawa on SSH Security
Gene Kim’s “The Unicorn Project” – my view
“The Unicorn Project” by Gene Kim finally became generally available last week, and I took couple of days while stuck in Toronto to read it. The book describes same events as the DevOps classic – Gene Kim’s “The Phoenix Project”. At least because of that “The Unicorn Project” was a must read in the top… Continue reading Gene Kim’s “The Unicorn Project” – my view
PostgreSQL Fatal – semctl crash and user id
Recently spent over a week in total (maybe 2 days net time) to realize that I was hitting this postgres bug – https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-9.5/+bug/1649877 . Documenting this just in case for the future, as it was pretty non-trivial to find that this was the issue I had. The weird part was that it started happening maybe… Continue reading PostgreSQL Fatal – semctl crash and user id
My 3-minute fire pitch of Reliza @ InvestOttawa
I was giving this pitch yesterday, it was a great atmosphere at Invest Ottawa and ton of positive emotions. Reliza is about bringing and reinforcing common sense into software releases and it’s very exciting to be part of this project! Slide in good quality is here: https://www.slideshare.net/PavelShukhman/reliza-3minute-fire-pitch-one-slide-pavel-shukhman-investottawa
2 nice tools for drawing cloud diagrams
Was looking for something like that for a while, and saw today these 2 nice tools that help create and visualize cloud architectures: 1. cloudcraft.co – more mature and nicer, but AWS only 2. cloudmaker.ai – new, more issues, pros: has unlimited grid on free tier and support for all 3 – Azure, AWS, GCP,… Continue reading 2 nice tools for drawing cloud diagrams
Machine-learning based research on cancer-beating molecules in foods
Very interesting read – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45349-y And here is resulting visualization chart of cancer-beating molecules in foods from this research:
Reliza Elevator Pitch
Nowadays, every organization is an IT company. Major banks may have more developers than Microsoft or Google. Strong IT business back-bone was the reality of yesterday, while digital transformation is the reality of today. Operating an IT company means continuous software development and maintenance. The more complex the software becomes the harder it is to… Continue reading Reliza Elevator Pitch
Reliza Versioning is now available on GitHub and Maven Central
Reliza Versioning is now available on GitHub here under MIT License. It also can be found as Java dependency on Maven Central here. It is a small tool and library that allows to auto-increment versions (mainly for the scripts) using either CalVer or SemVer or custom version pattern. Soon, we’re hoping to release a Jenkins… Continue reading Reliza Versioning is now available on GitHub and Maven Central