Retrospective The Phantom (Latency) Menace Recollection of a production issue causing high latency in a Node application with little observability. Covers initial symptoms, potential avenues of investigation, and ultimately the solution.
elasticsearch Bash and quoted strings with Elasticsearch This is one of those fun edge cases where you don't know that you don't know something until it beats you over the head for about an hour. My situation was simple -
Clojure Refer a macro with CLJC When you want to refer a macro in CLJC, you get into an interesting situation where Clojure, ClojureScript, and potentially other dialects begin to diverge. For instance, Clojure refers macros in one manner
Clojure Tiny Clojure Tips - Part 1 Suppose you love Clojure (of course you do), anonymous functions (doubly so!), and syntactic sugar but you need to have more than one argument. What's a person to do?! You could write the
Docker Set up Piwik in Docker Once you set up a blog and generate some content, you might eventually wonder if anyone is actually reading what your are writing. Down that line of thought is web analytics. After all,
Ghost Update Ghost in Docker This was actually relatively painless for me! I was on Ghost 0.7.x and updated to 0.9.x with no troubles. Since I have no idea how you set up your
Clojure Target Practice with the Arrow Macro Sometimes I end up with rather ugly looking code that shoots to the far right and looks like a cliff hanging over the code below. While the line works, it certainly does not
Clojure Library: Cheshire Grinning like a Cheshire Cat Anytime I work with JSON and Clojure my mind goes immediately to a library that puts a grin on my face: Cheshire. This is not only due to
Retrospective Project Retrospective: link-service When a project is finished, or comes as close to finished as possible, it is nice to spend some time pondering what has been achieved. Reflecting on the things learned as well as
Docker A Ghost at the Dock(er) Note: This post was written for Ghost 0.7.1, which is no longer a recent version. I've been eyeballing Docker for months now. Always popping up in my feeds with their enthusiasm
