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My journey into software and infrastructure engineering started in a physics research lab, where I discovered the merits of loose coupling and adherence to standards the hard way. I like automated testing, concise documentation, and hunting complex bugs.
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Jul 2, 2025 · 1 min read · The Google Cloud Platform supports structured logging. All it takes is writing JSON objects to stdout or stderr. With structlog, it’s straightforward to set up a processor chain that produces compatible log messages. There are two special fields that...
Join discussionJun 24, 2024 · 2 min read · botocore is a fairly large Python package. Until version 1.31.x, it came in at close to 90 MB. Since version 1.32.1, which was released in November of 2023, this dropped to around 25 MB when the AWS developers started to compress files. Specifically,...
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May 23, 2024 · 2 min read · By convention, Python packages expose their version through a __version__ variable: >>> import package >>> package.__version__ 0.4.2 Ideally, the package version should be defined in one place only. Typical approaches include hardcoding it in the pa...
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May 19, 2024 · 2 min read · Pulumi's Amazon EKS package provides high-level component resources for Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service, simplifying the setup of clusters and node groups compared to the lower-level EKS resources available as part of the AWS Classic package. The...
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May 17, 2024 · 3 min read · When working with AWS Step Functions, it's sometimes useful to have access to variable values that you can set when launching a state machine execution, are available to all states, but are not part of the JSON data that is passed between states. Som...
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