Originally posted on dotmethod.me In principle, the 12-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps that are optimized for the cloud. This methodology, first introduced by Heroku, defines a set of principles that developers should follow to ensure that their applications are easy to deploy, scale, and maintain. …

Originally posted on dotmethod.me Elastic search, TypeSense, Algolia, Meilisearch — a few search engine technologies which you might have seen out there; ElasticSearch currently being the largest of them. My favorite of them: Meilisearch. No surprise here, given the title of the article. …

Originally posted on dotmethod.me Photo by Pierre Bamin on Unsplash “How do I get started with Kubernetes? Is it difficult? I’ve read it’s difficult. I skimmed through some articles and I was overwhelmed.” Alright. Alright… Fair enough. I was also confused at first. But here’s what it boils down to…

Originally posted on dotmethod.me How do you generate a kubernetes user account? How do you get access to your kubernetes cluster? How can you generate a kubernetes config file? Intuitively, this should be pretty simple. However, in practice, the process is quite a bit convoluted. However, I have automated it…

Originally posted on dotmethod.me Here’s a simple, self-hosted configuration for Plausible Analytics, meant for deploying to Kubernetes. Note: All the code and instructions have been uploaded to github: https://github.com/dotmethodme/plausible-kubernetes How to Go to https://github.com/dotmethodme/plausible-kubernetes and clone the repository. All yaml files are inside the folder named base Open postgress.yaml. Edit the POSTGRES_PASSWORD field and set a randomly generated password for the postgres database

Originally posted on dotmethod.me Given a brand new ubuntu installation, here’s my first half-hour on the new system: Install system updates Install git Install VSCode Install Brave browser Install zsh & ohmyzsh Add a new ssh key to GitHub account Clone my dotfiles Install tilda Install pass Clone my password store Install kubectl Install solaar Install key-mapper

Originally posted on dotmethod.me The decorator method def fire_and_forget(f): from functools import wraps @wraps(f) def wrapped(*args, **kwargs): loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() if callable(f): return loop.run_in_executor(None, f, *args, **kwargs) else: raise TypeError('Task must be a callable') return wrapped An example: Use the method above as a decorator for other methods:

Originally posted on dotmethod.me How can you use Github Actions to build your code into containers and ship them to Kubernetes? Here’s one of my favorite pipelines, using Github Actions for tagging and building and DockerHub for hosting container images. name: Auto deployment on: push: branches…

Originally posted on dotmethod.me So, let’s say you’ve setup pass (the password manager) on your computer. But then, what if you want the same password manager on your phone? How about if you have a second computer that you want to share the passwords with? In this post I won’t…