April, 2015
13 04 2015
Anton Kropp | Code, Discussion |
Introducing EnvZ.
What is Envz?
During the course of normal production development we all tend to write a bunch of shell scripts and other useful command line utilities that help us out. Usually the end up being a bunch of one offs or stored in one mega .zshrc file. However, there’s something to be said about having a small framework to share environment utilities and to use as a jump off to “version” a shared set of utilities with team mates.
With that in mind I’ve been building out a small zsh bootstrapper that builds on tools that I like and use (like yadr) and gives a way to add pluggable team modules into it. All a pluggable module is is a sym link to another directory that auto loads .sh files on shell start. And while it sounds like a small thing, it’s actually really nice to be … Read more
envz, shell, zsh
7 04 2015
I’ve mentioned before, but I’m working heavily in a project that is leveraging akka. I am really enjoying the message passing model and so far things are great, but tying in an MDC for the SLFJ logging context proved complicated. I had played with the custom executor model described here but hadn’t attempted the akka custom dispatcher.
I was thinking that a custom dispatcher would work great to pass along the MDC since then you’d never have to think about it, but unfortunately I couldn’t get it to work. Akka kept failing to instantiate the dispatcher. I was also worried about configuration data and possible tuning that you might lose giving akka your own dispatcher configurator.
So, given that I wasn’t quite sure what to do. What I ended up with however was a little extra work but turned out well. I went with an augmented dispatcher/subscriber model. Basically for … Read more
akka, java, MDC, slf4j