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Elm in Hugo
To view the Elm component in action - scroll down to the Elm Component Demonstration section Motivation I wanted to learn to try to write a Frontend Application that provide some sort of dynamic functionality - e.
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Sending ggplot graphs to googleslides again
There was a change to the Google Slides API that resulted in an inability to upload images from Google Drive into Google Slides programmatically. Refer to the following issue on the rgoogleslides github repo - https://github.
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RGoogleslides - using your own account client id and secret
NOTE: BEFORE READING THIS - ALL SCREENSHOTS BELOW ARE TAKEN SOMETIME IN OCTOBER 2021. THE UI MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE - USE THIS AS A ROUGH GUIDE AND NOT AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH
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App with Metrics, Logs and Distributed Traces
In a previous post, it details some information of how to setup some open source tooling to capture logs, retrieve metrics as well as capture distributed trace information from apps. The previous blog post would cover the setup of logging system which is Loki, distributed tracing system which is Tempo and metrics collection system which is Prometheus.
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Setting up Observability Tooling in GKE
Generally, most cloud providers come along with all the observability tooling that you need for your apps built-in with the platform. Some of the common observability tools such as logging, monitoring and nowadays, distributed tracing are usually made available and you can easily use said tools by reading up on the various documentation of how to setup each of these tooling.
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Using Envoy for GRPC Applications in Kubernetes
As of now, one of the common and easier way to have services communicate with each other would be over HTTP. In real world use cases, HTTPS is usually used (in order to ensure communications are secure) and this communication is done following some sort of REST framework.
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Notes for building apps to be deployed on client infrastructure
This is definitely not an exhaustive list of items to consider but definitely some of the more obvious features that client side users would look out for and consider when attempting to install such third party apps and operate it on their infrastructure.
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Using systemd to manage services
Systemd is a convenient set of tooling that can be used to manage services and applications on a linux server. It would be good to follow the filesystem when putting the files on the server https://en.
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Basic SSL Setup - server and client SSL certificate setup
Install nginx on the instance. We would also probably need to install vim as well to make it changes on nginx configuration. sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y nginx vim sudo su mkdir -p /etc/nginx/ssl cd /etc/nginx/ssl Create the following file in ca.
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Building Nginx RPM from source
NOTE: As software advances, some of the commands shown below may become depreciated/irrelevant. If one encounters errors - check the output logs to see what the issue is (e.g. missing library?
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