Journey of an IT Architect

  • Host legacy application in Docker 2 of 2

    My previous notes include some tricks in hosting legacy application in docker. This is a continuation from that work, after 1.5 months… Use Case I…

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  • Automated Deployment Pipeline 3 of 3

    Background We have previously covered a pipeline example with Jenkins calling Ansible to leverage OpenSSH configuration and Ansible inventory. We also discussed a use case…

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  • Automated Deployment Pipeline 2 of 3

    In this posting, we continue to discuss Jenkins’ ability to automate deployment routines. Jenkins supports freestyle project out of the box, as well as Pipeline…

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  • Automated Deployment Pipeline 1 of 3

    The business case You launched a software application. You installed it on two customer sites. You support the application mostly by SSH to customer server…

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  • Log file navigator (lnav)

    I’ve used a number of log viewers in command terminal, on MacOS and Linux server. I read system logs, log4j formats, as well as json…

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  • Spark, Cassandra and Python

    In this post we touch briefly on Apache Spark as a cluster computing framework that supports a number of drivers to pipe data in, and…

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