DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019

Posted on Sun 18 August 2019 in Programming • Tagged with CI/CD

This week, I had the fortunate opportunity to attend DevOps World / Jenkins World. Cloudbees, the "headline sponsor," shaped the event with a couple of interesting announcements, and several technologies dominated the sessions Tuesday through Thursday.

First and foremost: Kubernetes is leading the game, and is now considered the de facto …


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Splunk REST Calls in Search

Posted on Sun 30 June 2019 in Programming • Tagged with Splunk

The Splunk REST API is a powerful thing. You can even call it in your searches using | rest [path] and get back Splunk data. But what if you want to get dynamic details back, or call several endpoints, without knowing the exact URIs? Turns out, there's a very awesome way …


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Threaded Woes

Posted on Sat 24 June 2017 in Programming • Tagged with Java

I'd been banging my head on these logging entries for days. Our recently added audit logs had a frustrating phenomenon; these unrelated strings were ending up in the "object" field when we shouldn't have a value populated there at all.

Working with Spring, mind you, the class looked something like …


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Mapping a List to Numbered Fields

Posted on Tue 03 June 2014 in Programming • Tagged with Java

One of my oh-so-favorite (cough) things to do lately in Java has been mapping one type of object to another with no particular transformation. Among these has been the act of taking a list and shifting its contents into a series of fields, depending on how many items are availble …


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