Mast Horses

At our club there are many boaters, including myself, who take down our masts for winter storage. These masts from sailboats over 30 feet in length weigh several hundred pounds, and there are points where we have possibly a dozen or more masts in a staging area. I’ve seen the sawhorses under these masks fail a couple of times. Masts are pretty heavy and when things are shifting or rolling, the weight of the mast on a single point on a sawhorse....

December 28, 2023

Docker Layers

Did you know that every line in your Dockerfile that starts with the all-caps statement such as ENV, COPY, or RUN creates a new layer in the docker image? This results in more layers to download and possibly larger file sizes for the images. “Whatever, my network is fast and once I have the image I’m good to go,” I hear you say. But consider the pipelines and all the environments where the image might run for dev and testing....

December 20, 2023

Should-Free DevOps

If you are a DevOps Engineer, you probably have a list of shoulds. “I should learn those five hot new tools someone mentioned recently.” “I should refactor that old code.” “I should migrate all our tools to microservices in Kubernetes.” “I should do a threat analysis, and review our monitoring and alert systems, and do something with AI somehow, and,” …and you get the idea. It can be a little overwhelming....

December 1, 2023