Posts by: Ashley Gerwitz

Package management has not been part of core Golang before. Each year, there has been a different de facto standard. In recent years, it was “official [core team] experiment” dep. Finally, we have Go Modules. In this blog post I’ll share the quick guide starting a new project with Go Modules and the solution to

Sidecars allow additional processes that share filesystem and socks with a Cloud Foundry application. We investigate separating these concerns from app developers by distributing and installing them with Buildpacks. This article is almost Part 2 in a 5-part series. Part 1 starts with Tim Downey’s How to Push an App to Cloud Foundry with Sidecars.

We’ve been doing a lot of interior plumbing work on SHIELD, shoring up the internal processes, the scheduler, etc. However, today I want to talk about a more visible change coming in the 8.2.0 release: Short UUIDs! Less, as they say, is more. UUIDs are typically around 40 characters long (including the hyphens). They’re great

As I wrote previously, we are kicking off our Summer 2019 Engineering Internship this week. Here are the potential projects that our intrepid summer interns will be working on. As a team, they will evaluate each proposal, choose one, and then carry it through from start to finish. These projects are fully self-contained (though they

Photo by Pixabay from Pexels An OODA loop, credited to USAF Colonel John Boyd is an action oriented cycle for mission delivery. It stands for observe–orient–decide–act. I was introduced to the concept a few years ago, and I’ve become very familiar with the response I get when I share it with others. The very same

Starting this summer (2019), Stark & Wayne will be running thrice-yearly internships, to help introduce near-graduates to the realities of dev/ops culture, agile methodologies, and cloud technology. The Format During each session we will pick between two and four candidates and bring them on part-time (20 hours per week) to work on a complete project,

What is Cloud Foundry? “Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications, providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. It is an open source project and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances.” – https://www.cloudfoundry.org/ What is Knative? “Kubernetes-based platform

As of this writing, it is 2019, and the tech-world has generally accepted TLS as a “good thing.” So let’s put certificates on our servers to make sure we’re talking to the right servers, and let’s also put certificates on our clients to make sure that the right clients are talking to the right servers.

Being cost-conscious in a cloud world can be difficult. Especially on public clouds, where deployment footprint and instance sizing can be difficult to get right. Throw in lower environments, like sandbox, quality assurance, and development, and you’ve got the makings of a big cloud services bill. In this presentation, I presented multiple approaches and strategies