Ali Hamidi

Kafka Pixy and TLS

While looking for a suitable REST/Web proxy for Kafka I stumbled upon Kafka Pixy. Out of the box Kafka Pixy supports a very simple REST API as well as a more performant gRPC API and so it looked like a great option. Setting it up looked very straight forward

Go

Visualizing Go Concurrency

Came across this great blog post that visualized Go concurrency and various aspects of Goroutines in general. Definitely worth checking out if you're at all interested in Go.

Vim

Recursive find & replace in Vim

After switching to Vim from Sublime (via a brief stint on Atom) there's one feature that I used infrequently, but was incredibly invaluable when needed and that Recursive find & replace. I wish there was a simple shift+cmd+f to bring it up, but here's how to achieve something

scala

Scala Dev with Vim

After spending several hours spread across 2 or 3 days I've finally arrived at a (more or less) usable Scala Dev environment on Vim. I've outlined my setup below! Goals Code Completion - Done Syntax Highlighting - Done :A access to tests (Alternates) - Pending Guide Install Java 8 (I

Go

Projectionist for Go

I've been using Vim exclusively for all of my Go development work for the past year or so and over that time I've slowly been customizing my setup. There are a number of essential plugins, including Vim-go and YouCompleteMe, but after recently working on a Rails project I encountered Vim-rails

Go

Local CI with GoConvey

When I first checked out GoConvey, the project I was working on at the time had tests that took upwards of 30s to complete, which resulted in an incredibly frustrating experience. Ultimately I just stopped using it, and wrote off GoConvey as a cool, but mostly unnecessary tool. I eventually

Go

Go-mapreduce

tl;dr I've put together an easy to use Map/Reduce package for Go. It manages the creation of background workers (goroutines) and the channels that connect them. Go-mapreduce go-mapreduce is a simple Go package that makes it super easy to apply the Map/Reduce pattern in Go using goroutines

Go

Using DynamoDB with Go

I've been looking for an excuse to use DynamoDB for awhile and I finally got a chance to this week. Previously I'd played around with it using IRB and the AWS Ruby SDK, but for my current project I'm integrating it into a Go application. Unfortunately it didn't take long

Go

Gopher Gala 2015

My fellow proofers and I took part in the first Gopher Gala 48 hour hackathon over the weekend (23rd - 25th of January 2015). It was loads of fun and our project turned out pretty well. We'd love to get more people working on it and hopefully turn it into

Ruby

Rails Rumble 2014: U Down Bro?

So this year I finally got a chance to participate in Rails Rumble. I partnered up with Sohaib Bhatti and after some brief brainstorming we decided on building out a Twitter based downtime notification system. The Idea The idea consists of a Web Service that listens to the Twitter stream

A truly "open" game

I've been thinking about building a MMO of sorts for the longest time, and during one my many "thinking sessions" I came up with this question: "Has anyone built a game where it is purely an API and People create their own clients?" In a nutshell

Go

Cross compilation of Go on OSX

My main development machine is a Macbook Pro Retina (running OSX naturally), but our production servers all run Ubuntu. The vast majority of our platform is built on Ruby, so we've never needed to consider compilation for particular platforms. I rather naively assumed that I'd just run go build, send

Learning Kanji with WaniKani

I finally decided take learning Kanji seriously, so spent some time searching for apps or tools that I could use. I ended up checking out WaniKani (which is a SRS based learning tool by the Tofugu guys) I've been using WaniKani for awhile now and how found it to be

iOS Continuous Delivery with Go - The Setup

I've been working on getting a Continuous Delivery workflow setup using Go (no not Golang, Go by Thoughtworks). To say that it has been a painful experience would be an epic understatement. I felt that sharing my experience might makes things easier for anyone else looking to setup something similar.

Ghost + Disqus

Well, I finally got around to adding Disqus to this blog. Integration was pretty straight forward, thanks to this post, except for the weird comment count on the index. For some bizarre reason, one of the posts shows "0 comments" whereas all other simply say "comments"

WraithHost Roadmap

As part of the WraitHost experiment, I've come up with the following plan. Implemented Dynamic Router Ghost Core In-Progress Signup Portal Billing CLI Admin Tool Planned Email Theme Upload Automatic Upgrades Backup Custom Domains Considering Benchmarking Stricter resource limits

WraithHost Architecture

Project Completion: 60% I've decided to document the architecture of WraithHost here. These are the key components: Router - Hipache + Redis (Slave) Ghost Hosts - Ghost Database - Redis (Master) Management - Sinatra App Communication - Serf In all cases, I'm using Supervisord in order to wrap the various services

Codeschool is Awesome...

Codeschool is awesome... but it turns out that I hate frontend development. I'm a huge fan of Codeschool and think that generally speaking I prefer the format of their courses over pretty much everything else I've encountered. I've been hearing about EmberJS for awhile and have had it on my

Changes to Ghost

In general, I've made very few changes to Ghost itself. In fact all changes are limited to the config.js file. Config.js config = { production: { url: 'http://' + process.env['NAME'] + '.wraithhost.com', mail: {}, database: { client: 'sqlite3', connection: { filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost.db') }, debug: false

WraithHost - An Experiment

So I'd been curious about testing out the Ghost blogging engine for awhile (especially as I'm a huge fan of Markdown). I've also been doing a ton of work with Docker as well, so I thought why not mash the two together and see what I can come up with.