I watched a YouTube series on the creation of Dwarf Fortress the other night, and I must say it really ended up intriguing me. I've never played Dwarf Fortress myself, but I have watched a few friends. For the uninitiated, its rogue-like farming and management simulator with very old graphics but...

Jenkins implemented a form of job that can be written in Groovy a couple of years ago. They call them Groovy Pipelines, and they have two major types:

• Declarative pipelines

  • Have a strongly opinionated format for syntax and semantics in writing jobs
  • Slightly modified example from a "build...

I've played around with a few Raspberry Pis in my time. As a developer, it's kind of hard to not find a way to use one of those neat hobby boards. I've helped people set up NASes, emulators for old arcade games, and remote home monitoring solutions all from Raspberry Pis. Here's some advice and ex...

OK, quick question. How much memory is your computer using right now? After being asked this, most simply open up their favourite performance monitor of choice and rattle off the biggest number they can find on the screen. As a performance developer I’m asked that question constantly, and was on...

Working as a performance investigation developer at my company using ELK for monitoring a 5 server system constantly shows high traffic load to our Elasitcsearch cluster. Near the beginning of my tenure as a developer I was constantly troubleshooting seemingly random node toppling and incredibly sl...