Posts on Jesse Dearing

Giving VSCode a go

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 09:05:26 -0800

I tried VSCode for 3 weeks just because I had been working a lot with Terraform and other members of my team mentioned the various plugins available for Terraform. I found using VSCode to be a really wonderful experience.

Complex Adaptive Systems in Software

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:57:00 -0700

Resilience engineering is becoming a required practice as people begin to expect services to be available nearly 100% of the time. We have the same requirements of the systems that sustain us: ecosystems, anatomical systems. Our world is one complex adaptive system after another.

5 CLI Tools all software engineers should know about

Mon, 14 Nov 2016 22:07:24 -0800

The following CLI tools, I have found to be extremely useful when dealing with systems to quickly find the information I need. Please note that all these commands are being run from OS X and are the BSD commands not the GNU commands that typically ship with a standard Linux distro.

Fixed vs. Growth System Failures

Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:06:08 -0800

The concept of Mindset based on the work: Mindset by Dr. Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. has been around for some time now, but recently I was thinking about root cause analyses meant as a tool for learning. Revisiting the John Allspaw post: The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys) make me start thinking about what makes a lot of people look at postmortems as a checkbox or paperwork and not value them as learning experiences.

Go is for .Close()’ers

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:35:32 -0800

The Close() method is important to the reliability of a running program and it’s not easy to tell when it should be used.

Who’s Running that on my System: Case of the stolen CPU

Fri, 16 Sep 2016 01:11:56 -0700

Last week, I found myself needing to find what application a query was originating from. My typical method for doing this is searching through source code before I eventually get angry that I can’t find the query originating from an ORM and start drafting an email decreeing that all applications get distinct logins to the database that I’ll never send because who is going to listen anyway.

I had an idea for how I can track a query all the way back to the process that accessed it and I even scripted it.