TomFrost

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by TomFrost 7y ago
I love the Remote SSH extension for VSCode (save for the frustrating workarounds necessary for ssh-agent forwarding -- an absolutely necessary feature) and expected VSO to be much more streamlined. But I find myself hitting early walls: - N
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by TomFrost 9y ago
Semantic recently adopted my team's React adaptation as their official React port. It's lighter weight, eliminates jQuery, and all components are standard React components that can be extended or dropped in as-is. https:/&#x
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by TomFrost 10y ago
ECS is free in that you pay only for the EC2 nodes running your containers -- there's no need to host ECS or do scheduling on your own hardware to use it. It's also Availability Zone-aware right out of the box, making sure the dis
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by TomFrost 10y ago
For one, hitting the Github API to put failed build markers against commits and PRs. CodeBuild doesn't appear to have the same Github integration that most other CIs do out of the box.
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by TomFrost 10y ago
The problem I've always had with audio interfaces is that input is not private. Requests on public transportation are heard by many. Requests at home turn into a conversation with the roommate, spouse, or children. Requests walking dow
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by TomFrost 10y ago
If the goal is solely Docker images with a standard size in the 20-40MB range, this can be achieved without additional tooling. After switching our development and deployment flow to docker, my team quickly tired of the 200-400MB images tha
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by TomFrost 11y ago
We have an open source solution called Cryptex[0] to handle this. It's better explained by this blog post[1] that gives the thinking and configuration necessary for most scenarios. [0]: https://github.com/TechnologyAdvi
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by TomFrost 11y ago
Depending on the data you're storing, you may be responsible for HIPAA compliance. Such a thing is possible on AWS[0], but is not provided out-of-the-box. [0]: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance&#x2
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by TomFrost 11y ago
Is there a basis for such an assumption? For an organization requiring the highest available security, the ideal solution would be a privately operated hardware security module kept off the DMZ. However, that, as well as the idea of self ho
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by TomFrost 11y ago
This is certainly the case, however for an organization implementing best practices for code deployment, such a change would have to be peer-reviewed in the best case, or pushed directly to master with an obvious paper trail in the worst. I
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by TomFrost 11y ago
KMS is not a centralized secret database -- it's a hosted Hardware Security Module. There is no way to store your service's secrets in it for later retrieval, unlike the solutions listed in the article. I suppose an argument could
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Lock Up Your Customer Accounts, Give Away the Key(technologyadvice.github.io)
65 points by TomFrost 11y ago|25 comments
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by TomFrost 11y ago
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by TomFrost 11y ago
Fair point; I was speaking more toward the case of needing a rebuild any time your container gets changed, due to the change-on-run ethos of DevLab versus the change-on-build ethos of Compose. But where cleanup really comes into play is wh
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by TomFrost 11y ago
Member of the DevLab team here :) Compose is actually part of the reason we wrote this tool. We tried so hard to make it make sense for a TDD workflow, but it was always cumbersome. Compose wants you to build your application into a contain
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by TomFrost 11y ago
Just today I made a suggestion in a Github issue[0] to use sed for a similar use case. There, it was to generate an Amazon ECS task definition file from a CI tool's environment variables. Using this, populating the list of environment
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by TomFrost 11y ago
I'd love to hear back if you find something like this. Up until Vers was released, I lazily boilerplated it into whichever of my services needed the functionality. Even so, the pattern has been such a boon to our development cycles tha
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by TomFrost 11y ago
You answered that one yourself :) Deprecation means to publicly notify that some API endpoint has hit end-of-life, and that a better alternative is available. If you completely rewrite a service, it's your responsibility to implement t
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by TomFrost 11y ago
You're 100% correct -- interoperability is the key, but you ensure that by making sure everything at the interface layer (whether that's a REST API, a polled queue, a notification stream, etc) is versioned, and the other microserv
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by TomFrost 11y ago
From your description, it sounds like your pain points don't come from versioning your microservice code; they come from versioning the data models that those microservices either 'own' or pass around to each other. While yo
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Show HN: Vers, a tool to version data models instead of APIs(github.com)
7 points by TomFrost 11y ago|1 comments
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by TomFrost 11y ago
ScummVM has been maintained on GitHub for a few years now: https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm The downloads are still on SF, though. That's unfortunate.
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by TomFrost 11y ago
This article digs on the flattened dependency model like it's a huge weakness of Bower, but this is the _entire point_ of Bower. You include two models that both depend on two different versions of jQuery. NPM wouldn't complain at
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by TomFrost 11y ago
1. Node.js is (for the most part) single-threaded; that's its draw. It's not trying to be a swiss army knife, and if your use case requires a threaded language then Node.js certainly isn't the tool for that job. But it might
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Jexl: JavaScript Expression Language(github.com)
5 points by TomFrost 12y ago|0 comments
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by TomFrost 12y ago
Similar library for (Node|io).js, with exponential backoff and randomness: https://github.com/TomFrost/node-attempt
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by TomFrost 12y ago
Coincidentally, I had a demo call with Sumo today. I was very impressed, except for one point that makes Splunk the clear winner at the moment: I can send structured logs to Splunk and it automatically finds the keys and allows me to query
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by TomFrost 14y ago
I'm sorry to say I was once heavily involved in this. I am Kyek, or "Kytek" as the article misspelled. Among other things, I wrote and maintained Appulo.us, and the quote at the end of the article is mine. While many called BS on the whol
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by TomFrost 14y ago
Clearly, the next logical step is to make a love song for developers.
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by TomFrost 14y ago
This is worth a little more elaboration, I think. If you compile the iTerm2 version of tmux provided on the iTerm2 website (a merge of the fork into tmux proper is pending), then you can link iTerm2 natively to a tmux session. This means t

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