topics.md

Blog post topics

Kubernetes Resource Fine-tuning and Bin packing

Configuration Files Considered Harmful (Sort of)

There is nothing like a good " is considered Harmful" essay to exasperate the unwashed masses of anguished software engineers toiling over their keyboards.

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• Using direct Programming language structures

• Embedding configuration

• Hybrid (overrides)

• Dynamic configuration

• Env vars and command-line args

• Dishonorable mention - JSON as config

When config files shine.

Mastering Docker

• Small images
• Minimal layers
• CMD and/or ENTRYPOINT
• shell vs. exec

https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-best-practices-choosing-between-run-cmd-and-entrypoint

Dockerize the World

https://github.com/the-gigi/docker-images

Datadog LLM Observability, OpenTelemetry and Async tracing

AppleScript vs. JXA

OpenAI JavaClient library

https://github.com/the-gigi/llm-playground-java/

Prompt Engineering (the old kind)

https://github.com/the-gigi/dotfiles/blob/master/components/prompt.sh

https://github.com/the-gigi/dotfiles/blob/master/rcfiles/.p10k.zsh

The CLI is an API

• kubectl
• aws
• gcloud
• az
• psql

How kube-forward works

Fuzz-Emoji - Polyglot Fun

• Python
• Golang
• Rust

Free as in Tier

Fuzz-emoji in the cloud

• AWS Lambda
• Google Cloud Functions
• Azure Functions

Knative functions

Fuzz-emoji in Kubernetes

Python f-strings

Explore the recent innovations like comments, str(), repr() and ascii() and async https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#f-strings

Compare to other languages

Language	Equivalent to Python f-string	Syntax Example	Example Output
C/C++	sprintf or std::format (C++20)	std::format("Hello, {}!", name);	Hello, Gigi!
Java	String.format	String.format("Hello, %s!", name);	Hello, Gigi!
JavaScript/TypeScript	Template literals	`Hello, ${name}!`	Hello, Gigi!
Go	fmt.Sprintf	fmt.Sprintf("Hello, %s!", name)	Hello, Gigi!
Rust	format! macro	format!("Hello, {}!", name);	Hello, Gigi!
Ruby	String interpolation with #{}	"Hello, #{name}!"	Hello, Gigi!
C#	String interpolation with $	$"Hello, {name}!"	Hello, Gigi!