Hart Hoover

You’ve gone and done it: you oopsie-daisy’d some flag in your API server’s yaml, applied it, and now it’s in etcd. Your API server pods are crashlooping, and very quickly your dashboard and API go down. Nothing is accessible. You are screwed.

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Prometheus alerting through AlertManager can be configured to send messages to Slack. Alerts sent to Slack, by default, are not very rich in detail:

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I spent the week in North Texas, traveling to Dallas and beyond to Texarkana to visit family. While in Dallas, I visited a few coffee shops on my list: Ascension Cultivar Coffee Oak Lawn I also attempted to visit Tweed Coffee’s “roasting den”, but was unfortunately turned away. They don’t serve coffee there (or give tours, apparently). It’s ok though, it was mostly a gamble anyway. I had great coffee in Dallas, but I had to settle for Starbucks in Texarkana. [Read More]

As I said in my previous post, I spent the Labor Day weekend in Houston. I toured the Katz Coffee Roasting facility, and went to three coffee shops that were highly rated in the city: Boomtown Coffee Antidote Catalina Coffee I didn’t make it over to Blacksmith, but when traveling not everything goes perfectly according to plan. By the time I got over there parking was a bit difficult to come by so I passed it up. [Read More]

My Labor Day weekend was spent in Houston taking in a baseball game and drinking some great coffee. As laid out in my plan for my sabbatical, I toured the Katz Coffee Roasting Facility on the North Side of town. It appears Katz started in one warehouse and grew along their center room by room as their business took off. Our tour guide told us they would be moving to a new facility soon. [Read More]

Today I began my roasting internship at Brown Coffee! I had a great time working at “Roasting Fantasy Camp” as Aaron called it, which is probably the perfect name for what I’ve been up to. Roasting was already in progress when I got there, so I was able to jump right in and NOT DO ANYTHING. I was there to learn, so I was very happy to watch a bit while the experts transformed green coffee: [Read More]