Happened to read a game from LinkedIn. An recruiter published a series words of '0' and '1' on my LinkedIn timeline. Which brought me back to the funny time struggling with huge logs from a large number of embedded cards. Can't wait to decode with shell :_)
Genre-Clawer -- A Cli-App and Maven lib to fetch genres
Genre-Clawer (Github) is a tool in both maven lib and cli-app created to verify an idea to fetch genres for given music pieces. It started with a post on Lower Hutt Countdown wall and which is a good journey as a weekend hackathon.
Setup virtualenv for Jenkins Python CI Task
When setting up CI for python projects, virtualenv could help to separate the test/deployment environment. This post will provide a template for Jenkins to use virtualenv for Jenkins tasks with Jenkins example.
A dip with performance test lib Locust
Locust is a Python lib for performance test. Here is a first dip with locust with sample codes.
why I write technical blog
This post describes the thoughts, motivation and tips on starting technical blog.
AWS S3 Outage
Encountered an AWS S3 Outage today on Travis CI. The broadcasting message shew that some apps providers have nothing to do but just pray or twitter and expect AWS to recover the issuing region S3 service (the most failures were from North Virginia Regnion, US-East, the following number -1 depends on accounts). Quora even has core stack out so content is not accessible for a while. As a content provider, we hope at least the authentication and reading on hot/warm data shall be maintained with appropertiate techniques as staticizing and CDN, hybrid mode for warm/hot data, et. The fact is cruel. On the other hand, which brings us back to Netflix Simian Army and most people are sure Netflix will not be impacted based on the chaos weather test from public reports.
Since S3 is a storage service, moreover, it is also a base to support many other famous AWS services. Which could explain why the AWS monitoring system was still presenting a green light at first couple of hours. It is weird to build WatchDog on top of the system under watch. However, it happened.
This post will share some thoughts on AWS outage.
domain and iptables update notes
An update on adding sub domain name to existing godaddy domain service, setting up nginx to forward 4096 port to 80, setting up firewall rules with iptables, iptables-persistent on Ubuntu VPS. jenkins.maxwu.me is now a sub-domain.
SoapUI command line
SoapUI is widely used in WebService functional and performance test. This post is a note on how to run SoapUI in command line with Mac environment.
Apache ab and gnuplot to generate benchmark test chart
This post described a simple demo on how to use apache benchmark test to get performance test result and generate chart with gnuplot.
Jenkins with Selenium 3, Chrome Driver latest version and Chromium Browser on cheap 32bit Linux
What a lovely day it has been in Wellington. Finally there comes the summer! And I also have a lovely day to successfully make stable test results on 32bit Ubuntu Linux with Chromium Browser, latest ChromeDriver and new Selenium java 3.1.0!
