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Observing Kubernetes Services With Veneur
Apr 5, 2018 · original
What is Veneur? Veneur is a data pipeline for observing distributed systems. You can use Veneur for aggregating application and system data, like runtime metrics or distributed traces, and intelligently routing the data to various tools for storage and analysis. Veneur supports a number of these tools – called “data sinks” – such as SignalFX, Datadog, or Kafka. For this walkthrough, we’ll use Datadog. Collecting pod-local metrics with Veneur The first step to observing our services with Veneur is to deploy a local sidecar instance of Veneur inside our pod. To keep things simple, we’ll create a simple application whose only feature is to emit a heartbeat metric. We’ll do this using veneur-emit . Veneur-emit is a convenience utility we wrote that allows us to emit statsd-compatible metrics at the command line for testing. It’s equivalent to using statsd client libraries (e.g. statsd ) with
Remote Work: 2 Years In
Oct 3, 2017 · original
I’ve been working for Stripe for over two years now. The company is based in San Francisco, and I’ve been working remotely from New York City the entire time. When I was deciding whether to accept my offer, I spoke with a number of people to get a feel for the company, the work I’d be doing, and the experience of working remotely. One of the people I talked to was Julia Evans, who had conveniently written two great blog posts about her experiences working remotely, both three months in and eight months in. With remote work becoming more popular at companies, I’d like to share my experiences of remote work after two years. I’ve experienced a wide range of remote working configurations: For the first year, I was working at a coworking space with a few other people from the same company. For logistical reasons, we ended up moving out of the space that we worked in together , so since then,
Don't Read Your Logs
May 19, 2017 · original
I’ve had a number of discussions, both offline and online , about logging practices. In my view, reading individual log lines is (almost) always a sign that there are gaps in your system’s monitoring tools – especially when dealing with software at a medium- or large scale. Just as I would never want to use tcpdump to analyze statsd metric packets individually, ideally, I don’t want to look at individual log lines either. This advice follows the spirit of “disable port 22 on your machines”. While most developers would agree that using dedicated orchestration tools is preferable to manual server wrangling, I know of very few projects or companies that take the extreme stance of disabling SSH access to all machines. Nevertheless, treating manual SSH as a sign of gaps in your system’s orchestration tools is an excellent master cue for architecting scalable and maintainable systems. Similarl
I Can Text You 💩, But I Can’t Write My Name
Mar 17, 2015 · original
Today, Model View Culture published an article I wrote about Unicode, character encoding, and non-Latin alphabets . I’ve included an excerpt below: I am an engineer, and I am a writer. As an engineer, I spend a lot of time thinking about how text is stored, but relatively little about what information the text actually represents. To the computer, text is an abstract entity – a stream of 0s and 1s, and any semantic meaning is in the eye of the beholder. As a writer, of course, the meaning is everything, and the mechanics of how the text is stored is merely a technical detail. But in an economy that is increasingly digital, increasingly global, and increasingly multilingual, we can no longer maintain this distinction. The information we want to represent is intimately linked to how it is stored. We can no longer separate the two. Read the rest at Model View Culture Photo CC-BY TMAB2003. T
What Would Body Cameras Do?
Dec 18, 2014 · original
On December 3rd, a New York City grand jury failed to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner. Protesters around the world, from Oakland to New Delhi, reacted to this decision, demanding reforms to counterbalance the power wielded by law enforcement. They adopted as a slogan Garner s chilling final words: I can t breathe. I can t breathe. I can t breathe . Garner is only one of several high-profile cases of black men killed by police. Sadly, these incidents are not rare. By some counts, a black man is killed by police officers nearly every day . Race plays heavily into this risk: a black, male teenager is 21 times more likely to be shot dead by a police officer than a white one. Of all the varied proposals for reform, perhaps the most popular among politicians is to outfit all police officers with body cameras. President Obama recently requested over $250 million
Beyond Culture Fit: Community Value-Add
Apr 29, 2014 · original
Recently, a founder of an early-stage startup asked me for tips on evaluating culture fit when building an early team. As the founder of most successful startups will agree, picking the first few members of your team is important. They set the tone for your company as it grows. Personally, I think that the term “culture fit” can be misleading. It implies a sort of homogeneity, which is actually the exact opposite of what most companies want. I make a point of the language here because I think it can be harmful to internalize the phrase “culture fit” when what you really want is to build a community. “Community value-add” might be a better term. If you think of yourselves as evaluating “culture fit” you’re placing your brain in pattern-matching mode, using the team you already have as a pattern and evaluating individuals against that pattern to test their fit. Even if you don’t intend to,
Allies
Apr 1, 2014 · original
In college, I served on the board of a student group that advocated sensible drug policy. During this time, our school s chapter was named one of the top ten most succesful chapters in the country. This honor was in part because we succeeded in passing a Good Samaritan policy to encourage students to seek medical attention for drug overdoses. It was also because we managed to unite a number of otherwise disparate groups – we co-hosted various events with the College Republicans, the College Democrats, the Arab students organization, Hillel (the center for Jewish student life), and more. When we organized events with the College Republicans, they did not refuse to collaborate with us simply because one of our board members supported raising taxes to fund a single-payer healthcare system. When we organized events with the College Democrats, they did not refuse to collaborate with us simply
Bypassing a DNS man-in-the-middle attack against Google Drive
Jan 12, 2014 · original
Boston to New York City is a frequently traveled route, so a number of different bus lines provide service between the cities. Most offer free WiFi as an amenity. However, all WiFi is not created equal. Today I was traveling by the Go Bus , and I assumed I d be able to do some work on the bus. I needed to access a document on Google Drive. However, when I tried to open Drive, I was greeted with this sight. I use OpenDNS instead of relying on my ISP s DNS servers, and I figured that there was some error on OpenDNS s end. So, I changed my /etc/resolv.conf to use the Google DNS servers, figuring that that would work. No luck. At this point, I realized that the bus network must be hijacking traffic on port 53, which was easy to test. dig gave me the following output: Visiting 67.215.65.130 directly gives the following page. Saucon TDS uses OpenDNS for DNS lookups, but they redirect undesired
Flipping a Coin Over the Phone
Dec 16, 2013 · original
Last week, a friend and I had to arrange an in-person meeting after work, by email. He s based on the Upper East Side, and I m in Chelsea. Neither one of us wanted to make the trek to the other s office, and there was no logical place in between where we d have a quiet space. The obvious solution would be to flip a coin, which he suggested. But how do we know that the other is telling the truth? The procedure for having Alice and Bob flip a coin over the phone is actually fairly simple. (Conveniently, my friend s name begins with a B , so I ll make him Bob, and I ll be Alice). First, Alice flips a coin, but keeps the result of the coin flip secret. Let s say that ‘H is 1, and T is 0. Then, Alice finds a book – (almost) any book will do, as long as Bob has a copy of the book as well. She picks an arbitrary page in the book. If the coin flip was H (1) she should pick an odd page; otherwise
Dorm Room Fund
Nov 20, 2013 · original
I am very excited to announce that I ve just joined the Dorm Room Fund team in New York City! For those who aren t familiar with the fund, Dorm Room Fund is a venture firm run by students and for students. The fund invests exclusively in student-run companies, providing seed financing on very founder-friendly terms. The goal is to serve as a springboard for driven, entrepreneurial students, providing support both financially and in other ways. I have always had a special interest in students and young entrepreneurs, which is why I have been a mentor for groups such as hackNY and the Thiel Fellowship . I ve found students are some of the most exciting entrepreneurs to work with – they bring fresh eyes to problems both new and old, and inspiring levels of energy and determination. I m looking forward to working with the rest of the team this year, as well as meeting all sorts of students w

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