In my new post on the CodeShip blog, I discuss configuring terraform with a consul remote backend. The entire aricle is available here.

The accompanying git repository is here. Please file an issue if you have trouble following the setup.

I am very excited to share that sometime back the Fedora project gave the go ahead on my idea of making Fedora Scientific available as Vagrant boxes starting with Fedora 29. This basically means (I think) that using Fedora Scientific in a virtual machine is even easier. Instead of downloading …

The video for my PyCon talk - "Counter, Gauge, Oh My!" is up:

The accompanying git repository is here and has the demos, links to some of my related articles and other resources.

If you have any feedback, please let me know.

A few weeks back I wrote a analyser for Apache Thrift IDL in Python. We used it to enforce some code review guidelines. When we hooked it onto arcanist lint engine, we could give feedback to developers at the time they were proposing a code change. The thrift parsing was …

In a couple of days, on Saturday, I will be delivering my PYCON US talk titled Counter, Gauge, Upper 90 - Oh my!.

This talk covers my journey into application monitoring in general and Python applications specifically. We will start with looking into the why of monitoring, learn the absolute basics …

Fedora 28 is out and I am happy to share that after a few releases of no Fedora Scientific, we are back. Thanks to all your emails and enquiring about whether Fedora Scientific is dead.

Go Download it now!

The Fedora Scientific Guide has been updated a bit as well …

Introduction

The ping program is one of the most common programs which is used to check the "aliveness" of a host and a typical execution looks as follows:

$ ping 127.0.0.1 -c 1 -4

PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data …

I recently learned about Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS service. One of the more interesting things that caught my attention there was DNS over HTTPS. That is, we can do this:

22:27 $ http 'https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query?ct=application/dns-json&name=echorand.
me'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK …

Fedora 28 beta was announced recently and I am happy to say Fedora Scientific is back.

One note though, the following applications/libraries are not part of the release:

• networkx
• scilab
• sagemath
• rkward

You can install them on your installation using:

$ sudo dnf install python*-networkx scilab sagemath rkward

The …

In this post, we will see how we can implement the AWS assume role functionality which allows an IAM role to be able to obtain temporary credentials to access a resource otherwise only accessible by another IAM role. We will implement the infrastructure changes using Terraform and see how to …