Significantly refactored my #webpack static asset pipeline today. No longer build assets locally and check them in. Build happens as part of #ansible provisioning. #win https://github.com/lopopolo/hyperbola/commit/eaf5b3197

I added code block and syntax highlighting to my new #blog. Planning on using it for an upcoming post about #terraform.

#django is a joy to use. Making my new blog app was so easy. Each view is only two lines of code! #win

I accidentally skipped v0.139.0 today because prettier barfed during cutting the release and I forgot to reset my git tree. I guess I forgot to run prettier on my whole repo when I enabled it. #fail

I made a post on how your org chart shows up in your infrastructure: https://hyperbo.la/w/aws-org-chart/ #blog

I made a post on Prosperity's partnership with Finance: https://hyperbo.la/w/engineering-finance-partnership/ #blog

Further #cost optimized my #AWS infra. Saved $3/month by turning off CloudWatch monitoring and making my ASG out of spot instances https://github.com/lopopolo/hyperbola/commit/ffa0e34 #win

I had a #patch accepted to gunicorn https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/1889

Jumped to latest #django 2.0.x and then to latest 2.1.x today. No deprecation warnings, smooth sailing. As a plus, I turned on PYTHONWARNINGS for my app in systemd #win

#AWS suggested for us to use a snowball to ship our data to a new region. This is an amazing product, but yea no

That was easy! hyperbola running on t3s now. #aws #terraform #win

docker lessons: https://github.com/lopopolo/hyperbola/pull/94

I also pruned a lot of config from my 12factor env, favoring convention for things like DB connection strings. In doing so, migrated to one hostname for DB across all environments. /etc/hosts alias in Vagrant, network in Docker, private hosted zone in AWS

Finally deployed a 2 month old branch incorporating lessons learned from my Docker experiment into my VM-based deploys. Big change is building from local source instead of pulling in a tarball from GitHub. Iteration speed is improved #win

One hack I've been using to enhance my productivity in the face of KTLO work is to write lots of things down. Project plans, system diagrams, user interviews. It helps organize the work that I have done and keeps me motivated.

The past 4ish months I've been a team of one. Been a decent slog. It's been hard to be productive when all of the KTLO work falls on me. Getting a new teammate in a couple weeks. Excited. 🤩

I've been retraining myself to say "Hey Google" instead of "OK Google"

I published a post about AWS Reserved Instances today https://stripe.com/blog/aws-reserved-instances

Optimizing for cost and complexity, #docker and ECS/EKS are not worth it for my 1 node crud app

https://github.com/lopopolo/hyperbola/commit/5c36137, https://github.com/lopopolo/hyperbola/commit/fcd007c #HA