Matt Williams

Author's details

Name: Matt Williams
Date registered: August 9, 2008
URL: http://matt@matthewkwilliams.com

Biography

Matt Williams lives in Columbus, OH, in a house filled with computers, cats, books and fiber. Pursuing the goal of being a modern Renaissance person, he plays with his daughter, cooks, roasts coffee, reads, weaves, studies, and hacks, including crazy ideas like a Cloud in a Box. Docker has been an especial passion since June of 2013.

Latest posts

  1. Weaving with Light Pt. 1 — August 31, 2016
  2. Abusing HAProxy: Stupid Simple Easy Dashboards — June 24, 2016
  3. Rules for Operations — April 25, 2016
  4. DevOps Creed (Work in Progress) — April 24, 2016
  5. I am not a Mindreader: a mini-saga — April 11, 2016

Most commented posts

  1. Swarming Raspberry Pi – Part 1 — 13 comments
  2. Docker, Cgroups, Memory Constraints, and Java: A Cautionary Tale, or Here be Reapers (sometimes) — 9 comments
  3. Shrinking Docker Images — 7 comments
  4. Rails & JRuby in a Jar — 7 comments
  5. rspec, restful_authentication, and login_required — 6 comments

Author's posts listings

Mar 10

Raspberry Pi Swarm Pushed to Unsuspecting Docker Hub

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I’ve pushed nimblestratus/rpi-swarm to the Docker Hub. It was pretty easy to port — basically stock Swarm, with Dockerfile changes needed for the Pi. Thanks to hypriot for the hypriot/rpi-golang container which I used as a base. One caveat…. only containers which are created for the Pi will be able to run on the Raspberry …

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Mar 06

Nifty Things for Week Ending 6 March 2015

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Karojisatsu — PSA & Must Read Stephen, in his presentation, described a Japanese term called Karoshi – literally as “death from overwork.” I have seen this hundreds of times in our industry and I also have come close enough to understand the brink of Karoshi myself. … In the 1980s there was such a concern …

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Mar 06

Cloudy with a chance of Raspberries

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cloud, cloud-in-a-box, Docker, Raspberry Pi

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I have been experimenting with Raspberry Pi computers with the intent of having a small cloud that I can take with me to talks. Plusses: I can have a good sized cluster in a small volume. Low power draw (6W or less per computer) With the release of the Pi 2, distribution based upon available …

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Mar 04

Cloud-in-a-Box

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cloud computing, cloud-in-a-box, Raspberry Pi

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11 Raspberry Pi, (Pi 2x6, Pi B+x5), Cables, Switch, and Power. (Keyboard not shown)

Have cluster, will travel…. Build details to follow shortly.

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Feb 27

Nifty Things for week ending 27 February 2015

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In like a lion

Cloud Computing fog – The Ruby cloud services library Docker SocketPlane strives to alleviate Docker networking challenges – TechRepublic Java Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (and showing how to fix it) The KeY Project — Integrated Deductive Software Design Programming DynJS | An ECMAScript Runtime for the JVM Social Consciousness …

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Feb 25

Grabbing Titles & URLs with a Bookmarklet

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howto, javascript, programming, tips, tools, web

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The following is fixing the wrong problem, but often technology is easier than people problems. $WORK removed the ability to use plugins with Chrome without having to go through a bureaucratic process lasting weeks. One tool I’ve found useful is the ability to copy the title and link of a page to the clipboard and …

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Feb 13

Nifty Things for Week of 13 February 2015

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bonsai

Programming How to Pair Program — Medium An introduction to visual programming using NoFlo | Rawkes Doctor Who game helps kids to learn to code | Ars Technica Freebies Get 2GB of free Google Drive storage by checking your internet security settings | ITworld — Only good thru 17 February. Data More Data, Less Accuracy …

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Feb 12

Developer Personality

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Headology, philosophy, programming

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DZone is conducting a survey of Developer Personality Types along the lines of a Meyers-Briggs analysis. They plan to shortly release the results, but will leave the “quiz” up after. If you’re curious about your developer type, you can take it at: Full Personality Test Short Personality Test Here’s my results from the full test …

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Feb 06

Nifty Things for Week of 6 February 2015

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Historical Footnotes Medieval Scribe: “Oh My God, I’m So Hungover” | Tor.com Gaming (pointlessly) Above and beyond the call of duty. — A Paranoia Adventure Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi 2 on sale now at $35 | Raspberry Pi — Upgraded CPU & Memory; same price Flotilla for Raspberry Pi – Friendly Electronics — Flotilla is …

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Feb 01

Nifty Things for Week of 30 January 2015

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Big Data Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster — for certain tasks and data sets, hadoop is not the best choice. maxogden/dat — Dat is an open source project that provides a streaming interface between every file format and data storage backend. Cloud Computing Docker on a raspberry pi | Xebia …

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