Notes on public versus private gitlab runners.  GitLab has a common set of public CI/CD build runners that are shared throughout the entire world.  While this doesn't cost anything, it can be limiting in what they are capable of doing. For the majority of the time this

QuartzNet is a port of the popular Java library [http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/] to C# that allows for durable background scheduling of jobs with a sophisticated triggering system ranging from immediate to repeatable options.  There are other options in the .NET world such as HangFire [https://www.hangfire.io/], QuartzNet

In my attempt to write idiomatically correct python code.  I laid out the following structure. Define classes using args and kwargs class SyncFileMetadata: file_type = "" def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): if 'file_type' in kwargs: self.file_type = kwargs.get('file_type') from datetime

AWS provides the ability to manage scaling manually or through programmatic API calls.  This allows you to save a lot of money if you know what your usual web traffic will look like i.e. you could use spot requests which normally allow you to pay 1/4 the price

Update 2019-09-10 This tutorial Postgres guide [https://www.guru99.com/postgresql-tutorial.html] by Tushar Korat covers Postgres and is comprehensive and gets you up and going with details and excellent examples. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-features.html This goes through some of the great capabilities of Postgres. Key points

.NET Core project Continuous Integration setups for public build SaaS services The following is a working appveyor.yml [https://github.com/Siliconrob/solcast_net/blob/master/appveyor.yml] file for a client library version: '0.0.{build}' configuration: - Release platform: Any CPU # Build worker image (VM template)

Telnet Is a friendly app that is on almost all Linux machines and many windows machines that you can use for some basic connectivity testing. telnet ip port Examples - 10.0.0.1 suppose is the server Test for RDP enabled telnet 10.0.0.1 3389 If telnet

Postgres is a powerful database that can run anything it seems, but to kepp it healthy may not be as obvious and that is where PgHero can step in and give you a nice dashboard [https://pghero.dokkuapp.com/datakick] to help review and monitor your database instance. This should

This is a visualization tool [https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana] that can be run as a docker container and hooked to your preferred datasource for increased visibility and information.  When running a SaaS it is incredibly useful for visualizing time interval windows easily.

When you need to find the appropriate Ubuntu base image for AWS EC2 machines https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/

Excellent IDE, this link [https://stackify.com/visual-studio-rider/] goes over the major points, will point out that the big difference to me between Rider and Visual Studio is the debugger immediate window where you can evaluate code snippets while debugging.  While Rider can evaluate expressions it is not as natural

SSH Key validation system to avoid the glut of passwords that y

Postman [https://www.getpostman.com/] has been an indispensable tool I have been using for doing one off testing on the SaaS API I have been developing side benefits it provides are conversion to cURL [https://curl.haxx.se/] statements and synchronization of saved requests when you create an account

If you have test code and it is not sufficient then improve it immediately. If you have monitoring and telemetry streams use those or improve them right now. If you have a legacy application with nothing, but logs then welcome to the special HELL of attempting to debug an issue

Currently this is the current process I am using for GitHub. * Fork the original repository from GitHub website. * Open the GitHub Desktop client. * Clone the newly forked repository with the GitHub Desktop client * Open the the folder with git shell Fetch all the changes on the main branch that have

Wanted to be able to search across multiple text columns at first thought about difficult joins and views, but then remembered that almost every modern database system has this builtin as default functionality and since I am having to do MS SQL Server databases for the most part this is

Wanted to create a User Defined Function in MS SQL server that would generate memorable aliases for users to use. First point is that a UDF function does not allow you to create temp tables within it or use side effecting functions like NEWID() which was not fun, but you

When creating complicated clauses for queries use the underlying IDBconnection with the template type of the underlying source, but make sure to use the db.From() and then append the Where clauses afterwards in a series to generate the appropriate parameterized and checked clause. Once the SqlExpression is built you

Created this file using the Push.js to allow simple push notifications in JavaScript like this Notify.info({ title: this.title, message: "No changes to undo." }); with an import like this import * as Notify from "../utilities/notify"; That references this file with the following contents. import

Solid project for simplifying the your react interactions with a server API data models react-refetch import React from "react"; import ReactDom from "react-dom"; import { connect, PromiseState } from "react-refetch"; import { globalStyles } from "../../styles"; import { Urls } from "../../redux/serviceurls"; import * as Notify

* Reduces cognitive load\n* Makes testing straightforward and clear* * Easier to build * Known resources can be versioned * Excellent post on this https://platform.sh/blog/containers-are-the-new-static-binaries * This part is so true and earned from many issues that come with experience. * Static typing is great because you really want the error