December 2019
Python things
Python is my main programming language.
Async/await
- How to use these
- How do they work under the hood
- How to mess this up badly
fastapi
- How to use this
- How it works under the hood
- How to mess up longin/security
- How to deploy this to Google Run with Cloud SQL, AWS EC2 with Aurora PSQL, IBM?
- How much more complicated does adding a proper SQL make this deployment, vs using SQLite
- Gitlab automatic deployment and unit testing with every commit
Distributed Systems
Reading this book, notes go here.
Google Spanner
- What is this
It’s expensive
It’s almost $1 per hour per node, with storage being a negligible expense compared to nodes.
- How does it actually work?
- Their marketing material says a lot of very nice things about this service
Gitlab
- How to create a CI/CD pipeline (Hint: it’s actually pretty fun and easy to do this)
- Avoid
did
(docker-in-docker) because that’s pretty sketch.