Ohthehugemanatee.org Website Review

a blog about technology, open source, and the web.. from someone who works with all three. ended up an excuse to dig de*p on one of the corner cases that we all encounter, but no one likes to talk about. decoupled, stateless architectures. kubernetes tutorials abound to show you these strong use cases. but in the real world where you. don’t get to build “green field” every time, there are a lot of applications that don’t fit that model. lots of people out there are still writing tightly-coupled monoliths, in many cases for good reason. in some use cases microservices style one of my holiday projects was to set up my home “data warehouse.” ever since dropbox killed modern linux filesystem support various drives together into a single raid data warehouse. the only problem: how to transfer my 2 terabytes (rounded to make the math in the post easier) of data, without na*ty downtime during the holidays? last week i wrote a drupal module that uses face recognition to automatically tag images with the people in them. you can find it on of course; it’s really interesting for bulk use cases, like digital as*et management systems. i had a great time at drupalcon nashville, reconnecting with friends, mentors, and colleagues as always. but this time i had some fresh perspective. after 3 months working with microsoft’s (badas*) cse unit – building cutting edge proofs-of-concept for some of their biggest customers – the contrast was powerful. the drupal core development team are famously obsessive about code quality and about i’ve had all of a week working at microsoft, and so far it’s been great. i’ve managed to get my linux daily driver machine working with almost all the ms internal systems (more on that in a separate post), and all the daily use applications have web or linux versions but every time i’ve asked for support, or visited it, or encountered something that didn’t work perfectly, i hear the same question: “why do you want to run open source software, anyway?” the question isn’t asked with malice or condescention. it’s asked with