New Articles
How to communicate with your Python program running inside a Docker Container, using Linux Signals
Hope you’ll have fun reading this article:
Communicating with Docker Containers via Linux Signals and Python
I migrated my last services from Amazon and the blog to Google Compute Engine (GCE / GCP)
Updates
Updates to articles
I updated the article about Python weird things that you may not know adding the Ellipsis …
I’ve been working in some Cassandra examples. I may publish an article soon about using it from Python and Docker.
Updates to My Books
I updated my Python and Docker books.
I’m currently writing a book about using Amazon AWS Python SDK (boto3).
Updates to Open Source projects
I have updated ctop, fixed two bugs and increased Code Coverage.
I made a new tag and released the last Stable Version:
https://gitlab.com/carles.mateo/ctop/-/tags/0.8.7
On top of my local Unit Testing, I have Jenkins checking that I don’t commit anything that breaks the Tests.
Some time ago I wrote some articles about how you can setup jenkins in a Docker Container.
Miscellaneous
Charity
I’ve donated to Wikipedia.
Only 2% of the viewers donate, so I answered the call every time it was made.
This is my 5th donation to Wikimedia.
I consider that Freedom is very important.
I bought these new books
One of my secrets to be on top is that I’m always studying.
I study all the time, at work and in my free time.
I use Linux Academy and I buy books in paper. I don’t connect with reading in tablets. I think information is stored better when read in paper. I use also a marker and pointers to keep a direct access to the most interesting points on the books.
And I study all kind of themes. Obviously I know a lot of Web Scraping, but there is always room for learning more. And whatever new I learn helps me to be better with my students and more clear writing my books.
I’ve never been a Front End, but I’ve been able to fix bugs in the Front End engines from the companies I worked for, like Privalia. I was passed a bug that prevented the Internet Explorer users to buy just one hour before we launching a massive campaign. I debugged and I found a variable named “value” so the html looked like <input name="value" value="">. In less than 30 minutes I proved to the incredulous Head of Development and the CTO that a bug in Internet Explored was causing a conflict when fetching the value from the input named value. We deployed to Production the update and the campaign was a total success. So I consider knowing Javascript and Front also a need, even if I don’t work directly with it. I want to be able to understand all the requirements and possibilities, and weaknesses, so I can fix bugs and save the day. That allowed me to fix scalability problems in Nodejs and Phantomjs projects too. (They are Javascript Server Side, event driven, projects)
It seems that Amazon.co.uk works well again for Ireland. My two last orders arrived on time and I had no problems of border taxes apparently.
Nice Python article
I enjoyed a lot this article, cause explains part of what I did with my student and friend Albert, in a project that analyzes the access logs from Apache for patterns of attempts of exploits, then feeds a database, and then blocks those offender Ip Addresses in the Firewall.
The article only covers the part of Pandas, of reading the access.log file and working with it, but is a very well redacted article:
https://mmas.github.io/read-apache-access-log-pandas
Nice Virtual Volumes article from VMware
I prefer Open Source, but there are very good commercial products too.
I liked this article about Virtual Volumes from VMWare:
Understanding Virtual Volumes (vVols) in VMware vSphere 6.7/7.0 (2113013)
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2113013
Thanks Blizzard (again)
There is a very nice initiative where we can nominate 4 colleagues a year, that we think that deserve a recognition.
My colleagues voted for me, so I received a gift voucher that I can spend in Ireland stores like Ikea, Pc World, Argos, Adidas, App Store & iTunes…
So thanks a million buds. :)