After working through “the book” on the Rust programming language and getting started with the first non-trivial, real-world application I found myself faced with a question I didn’t yet feel well-equipped to handle: “How should you structure error handling in a mature rust application?”

It's been a month since I attended SREcon18 Europe and the majority of talks is now available online. In this article I look at the ten talks which stuck with me the most in the days and weeks following the conference. Summaries are provided to highl…

Willy Tarreau, author of HAProxy, semi-recently wrote a very in-depth article about HAProxy's reload process and how it could, under certain conditions, drop/reset connections during reloading. With HAProxy 1.8, this will finally be no more. I did a …

A look at the new plugin package coming in Go 1.8 - a bit of background, a look on how to make use of it and some of its (current) limitations. Recent Go releases have introduced a number of different ways to compile Go code. With Go 1.5 for example …

This post is part of an ongoing series on dotfiles. In today's episode we look at dotfiles for Git. rerere The first item I'd like to call attention to is a little known option called "reuse recorded resolution", or rerere for short. It's a feature w…

This will be an ongoing series highlighting snippets of my own dotfiles which I suspect would prove useful to others. A lot of people publish their dotfiles on GitHub. A quick search on GitHub currently yields 62,025 results. That is way too many rep…