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Darron Froese
Personal blog · blog.froese.orgprogrammingsystems
Darron Froese writes darron froese, a personal blog at blog.froese.org about programming and systems. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Darron Froese's blog for posts on Docker, Consul service discovery, and his octohost Docker-based mini-PaaS. The comments only point to these posts and explain the author's tooling choices.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Related: a detailed 50-minute talk about using Consul at scale (for service-discovery) at DataDog, by Darron Froese. (The talk was given at SREcon16, on 04/08/16.) We had many VMs in AWS - were ingesting millions of metrics per second - and were having pain around service discovery and quick configuration changes. This is the story of how we integrated Consul into our environment, what it helped us with, mistakes we…
Comment linking /2016/04/08/srecon-running-consul-at-scale/
on “Service discovery at Stripe”Submitted Monitoring/Logs/Metrics Tools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is mainly focused on websites, but you can launch other items that don't require any ports exposed: http://www.octohost.io/data-stores.html I added some "magic" Dockerfile comments - this is the one to add in order to not expose anything via HTTP: NO_HTTP_PROXY I am not a huge fan of volumes where data is stored on the box - but you can do it the same way I've described on the page. I think of octohost boxes as…
Comment linking /2014/03/17/using-octohost-with-heroku-addons/
on “Simple web-focused Docker-based mini-PaaS server”Chef is being used to build the VM and put the entire thing together. But after it's built - you never need to use Chef again. Fig didn't exist when I started this and I wanted to mirror the git push that Heroku used. Logging is handled by Docker - and can be sent to services like Papertrail if you use something like logspout: http://blog.froese.org/2014/05/15/docker-logspout-and-nginx/
Comment linking /2014/05/15/docker-logspout-and-nginx/
on “Simple web-focused Docker-based mini-PaaS server”