James Quigley's Blog

Personal blog on things like JavaScript, Docker, and more.

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Table of Contents Summary Autoscalers Horizontal Pod Autoscaler Vertical Pod Autoscaler Cluster Autoscaler Autoscaling Caveats Cost…

Dec 15, 2020

I also made a video version of this post, if you’d rather watch than read. Over the past few years I’ve adopted a handful of various CLI…

Sep 21, 2020

Factorio is one of my all time favorites games all about automation. You create an ever growing factory, with increasing complexity…

Aug 15, 2020

When I was a kid, I had the opportunity to tour the Titan II Missile Museum in Arizona. It’s the last of the 54 silos across the U.S. that…

May 15, 2020

Node.js version 14 was released recently, and will become active under Long Term Support (LTS) version in fall of 2020 (October 20th to be…

Apr 27, 2020

Recently I was working on a piece of my company’s Python code base that I hadn’t touched before. It was part of an automation script that…

Apr 13, 2020

Inspiration I was inspired to write the post by an acquaintance who is new to the software industry. They couldn’t find any good resources…

Apr 3, 2020

TL;DR Use the and/or attributes on a Terraform . Summary When creating IAM policies in AWS, it can be really easy to either: Give things…

Mar 30, 2020

TL;DR Learn from my mistakes. If you are using the default json-file driver, configure and options to have Docker automatically rotate and…

Aug 14, 2018

MongoDB is really fast and easy to get setup with, and therefore is a favorite for many developers who want to get a running start into…

Aug 28, 2017

TL;DR Details Each Node.js version ships with npm. Currently the LTS Node version (v6.11.2) ships with npm v3.10.10. But what if you want to…

Aug 21, 2017

Introduction So you’ve updated Node Package Manager (npm) to v5.x.x, and everything seems to be going fine. But wait, what’s this? A new…

Aug 11, 2017