• Helpful Intro to ESP32

    If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton Just saw this posted in the reddit/esp32 group : https://esp32io.com/ Has a nice intro to the device

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  • Board Support Packages (BSP)

    The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build Bjarne Stroustrup I recently made a post on reddit /esp32 about board support packages. I have reproduced a cleaned up version of that post here: Here is some hopefully useful information about how GCC and common…

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  • Kubernetes Configmap Scripts

     “To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script.” Alfred Hitchcock There is a nice trick I use when I’m writing Kubernetes Jobs of embedding scripts in configmaps. Jobs are a Kubernetes resource type which spin up a one-shot container and run it to exit, with an…

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  • British Breakfast Bap

    Aragorn : Gentlemen, we do not stop ’til nightfall. Pippin : What about breakfast? Aragorn : You’ve already had it. Pippin : We’ve had one, yes. What about second breakfast? Tolkien, Lord of the Rings https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/great-british-breakfast-bap Breakfast is an important meal. The best British Breakfast Bap I have eaten was from the “bun hut” on the docks of Bristol, UK. It is required…

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  • Kubernetes Resource Optimization

    The key to success is twofold; know what you are doing, and do it well. Most people fail at the first step Joel Crisp (me) There has been a lot written about Kubernetes Resource Optimization. Kubernetes, at the core, is a resource aware scheduler designed to pack as many tasks (pods) onto compute resources (nodes)…

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  • CPU Architectures as Kitchens

    “Grandma, he had often wanted to say, Is this where the world began? For surely it had begun in no other than a place like this. The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it; it was the pediment that sustained the temple. Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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  • High Availability is not Business Continuity

    Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe.  Terry Pratchett, Going Postal Let’s talk a little about some common terms in the Software Industry : I believe all these terms have different meanings, and sometimes nearly always they are confused. High availability is not Business Continuity So what does it…

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  • Welcome

    This is your usual introduction to a new blog… I hope you find something of value here. I hope to be posting irregular thoughts from my interests, and a 45+ year career in Software Engineering

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