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Open in app Sign In Get started Home Notifications Lists Stories -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Write 32 Followers Follow Home About Tech at Tucows Culture People Practice Careers Website RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. Daniela Baron ·17 hours ago ABOUT THOSE DOCS Today I want to write about engineering documentation. That is, docs that are written by engineers, for engineers that are working on the same project. It’s known that despite the many benefits of having good project documentation, engineers generally dislike writing it. This means useful docs tend to be lacking… Documentation 12 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Tucows ·Apr 21 OPENSTACK MANAGEMENT WITH SHEPHERD Written by a member of the Tucows Systems Engineering Team 💡 Abstract: Tucows uses OpenStack as its cloud provider. However, as a cloud provider, OpenStack’s administration front end lacked certain features that Tucows needed in order to effectively leverage its use across the company. … Openstack 9 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rémi P ·Apr 14 AN APPROACH ON DATA MODELING IN RUBY From database record to method arguments, business entities and a lot of other cases, data is everywhere in our application. No need here to explain the rationale and why we group values in data structures. Data dominates. If you’ve chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms… Ruby 6 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Tucows ·Apr 12 THE STORY BEHIND WAVELO By Jessica Brown and Dave Stuckey | Graphic Designer and UX Writer | Tucows + Wavelo 💡 Tucows’ new software company, Wavelo, is revolutionizing the software that powers the communications industry. This is how we built a brand to tell the story. Great brands are more than a cool logo… Design 5 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniela Baron ·Mar 18 NOMAD TIPS AND TRICKS I’ve been working on a platform migration project to containerize and move several web applications and associated services from a home grown system to Hashicorp’s Nomad. Nomad is a workload orchestration tool designed to make it (relatively) easy to deploy, manage and scale containers on private and public clouds. It’s… Nomad 18 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keerthi M ·Mar 1 OPENTELEMETRY-PYTHON MANUAL INSTRUMENTATION — HOW-TO GUIDE by Keerthi M and Irfan Khan | DevOps Engineer and Sr.DevOps Engineer — Observability| Tucows Observability is defined as the ability to understand any unknown system state just by asking questions from the outside . With the unknown unknowns of our software’s failure modes, we want to be able to… Opentelemetry 11 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Tucows ·Feb 23 WHAT I LEARNED AS A JR. DEVOPS & DATABASE ENGINEER INTERN AT TUCOWS by Harshitha Durai | Jr. DevOps & Database Engineer | Tucows Background Being my first ever Co-op (Internship) experience, I have to admit that I was a bit nervous. For some background, I’m a student at the University of Waterloo, in my Second year of majoring in Computer Science. At Tucows… Internship 5 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Alfonzo ·Feb 21 ANSIBLE: THE BETTER WAY TO MANAGE YOUR SYSTEMS A hands-on guide to Ansible I have encountered a lot of organizations still managing host by host. Making engineers connecting to each of them run a ton of commands, copy some files over, attempt to make an application work, modify some more files again, rinse and repeat until the application… Tech 23 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yiğit İrez ·Feb 10 VAULT, FROM GROUND UP I just ordered a vault and loudspeaker online They just arrived. Safe and sound Well, now that we have the unavoidable dad joke out of the way, here we are again to learn something, from scratch. Vault 7 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniela Baron ·Feb 7 WORKING TOWARDS AN ASYNCHRONOUS FUTURE I was inspired to write this after reading a post about how big tech companies organize their software engineering processes and the curious absence of scrum at these companies. While I don’t work at a FAANG (or MAANA given some company renames), I am fortunate to be working on a… Async 18 min read RESPONSES (1) What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Alfonzo ·Jan 29 TRAEFIK IN NOMAD USING CONSUL AND TLS Using Traefik for routing containers running in Nomad, while using Consul for service discovery and TLS certificates for security — It may be arguable that microservices architecture is the best thing since the invention of the remote control. Well, maybe not quite… but microservices have provided various solutions such as improved scalability, better fault isolation, separation of duties, programming language neutrality, security, and more. Tech 17 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adri Villela ·Dec 14, 2021 JUST-IN-TIME NOMAD: RUNNING THE OPENTELEMETRY COLLECTOR ON HASHICORP NOMAD WITH HASHIQUBE Why should Kubernetes get all the love? There are tons of examples out there on how to deploy the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector to Kubernetes. When it comes to deploying the OTel Collector on Nomad, however, you don’t see a lot of stuff out there. Sure, you might see some sample Nomad jobspecs to get you started, but… Hashicorp Nomad 15 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Alfonzo ·Dec 11, 2021 OPENTELEMETRY: HANDS-ON INSTRUMENTATION How to Instrument Golang code with OpenTelemetry — Instrument once, integrate a thousand times Ugh, annoying… and counter-productive Have you spent weeks getting a library or module working, and someone out of the blue wants to use a different one? A library that does the same thing but is different. Ugh, annoying…and counter-productive. We’ve got better things to do with our time and energy. In the past, Observability… Tech 23 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mohammad Harun ·Dec 2, 2021 HOW TO FIX DISJOINTED TRACES WITH CONTEXT PROPAGATION Connecting an OTel-Instrumented Service to a Service Instrumented with Datadog Tracing Libraries — As the world continues to shift from relying on monolithic applications to adopting microservices, Observability has become an important focus. At Tucows, the Observability team aims to develop best practices and standards around Observability. What is Observability? It is defined as understanding the inner workings of a system without having… Tech 6 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adri Villela ·Dec 1, 2021 UNPACKING OBSERVABILITY: THE PATH TO OPENTELEMETRY If you’re new to the Unpacking Observability series, welcome! If you’ve been following along from the start, thanks for tagging along for the ride! Observability Recap: Observability lets us understand a system from the outside, by letting us ask questions, without knowing the inner workings of that system. Observability allows… Tech 11 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yiğit İrez ·Nov 26, 2021 “GO”, FROM GROUND UP I feel like I’m hitting myself with the name of these “nothing to something” stories but so be it. I don’t know Go and I have to start somewhere. Let’s do it together. So Lets GO, No?, Ok. Requirements It is assumed that you know programming basics since I will not… Go 24 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniela Baron ·Nov 9, 2021 DEBUG GITHUB ACTIONS A few weeks ago I was setting up CI (continuous integration) for a Rails project that uses Sidekiq, Redis, and Postgres. Pretty straightforward, just needed to run a build, install and configure the services (Postgres and Redis), initialize the database, then run linting and tests. Prior to the general release… Github Actions 6 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Tucows ·Sep 30, 2021 WORKING AT TUCOWS: MY FIRST INTERN JOB by Amanda Pham | Jr. DevOps Engineer Intern | Tucows This summer, as I was about to leave the house for some de-stressing ice-cream after so many intern job interviews that at one point I just stopped counting, I received a call from Erik Reed, Tucows’ Talent Partner, as he… Internship Experience 5 min read RESPONSES What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Tucows ·Sep 22, 2021 HOW TO PREPARE COMPSCI AND COMPENG STUDENTS FOR THE WORKFORCE by Adriana Villela and KC Tessarek | Manager, Observability & Platform Solutions and Team Lead — Observability | Tucows One of the things that I get to do as part of my job is hiring an intern for each of my teams. I love bringing in interns, because they are… Internships 11 min read RESPONSES (2) What are your thoughts? Cancel Respond Also publish to my profile There are currently no responses for this story. Be the first to respond. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adri Villela ·Sep 20, 2021 JUST-IN-TIME NOMAD: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING HASHICORP NOMAD With the popularity of microservices on the rise, having a way to manage these microservices, from deploying them to making sure that the right ones can talk to each other, has become crucial in today’s distributed environment. The most popular solution out there is Kubernetes. Heck, it’s so popular that… Tech 11 min read Get started Sign In The Stories from the Herd are a series of learnings, sharings, and insights prepared by our talented teams here at Tucows. Our goal is to provide insightful content that helps simplify complex problems while making the Internet better and more accessible. Follow Connect with Stories from the Herd by Tucows EDITORS TEAM TUCOWS Making the Internet better since 1993. 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