Sep 2Github projects: change issue status based on pull request changeGithub Projects have automations (workflows) that are supposed to make project management more effortless. I find the built-in workflows to be quite limited. In particular, I didn’t find any built-in way to change the status of an issue if there is an action on linked PR. The desired behavior: change…Github Actions2 min readGithub Actions2 min read
Published inNotion Galaxy·Jan 10, 2022How do I turn a Notion page into a “real” website?💡 TL;DR Why would you even want to transform a Notion page into a website, instead of sharing public Notion links? The answers are: SEO restrictions, limitations in how your Notion site looks like, lack of blocks equivalent to standard web components, such as a navbar or a button, and…Notion14 min readNotion14 min read
Jan 19, 2020Developer’s review of CircleCI 2.0Lessons learnt while creating a complex delivery pipeline with CircleCI 2.0. — Recently I had an opportunity to create a pretty complex delivery pipeline with CircleCI 2.0 service. CircleCI 2.0 is a CI/CD platform which comes in two flavors: cloud and server. …Circleci7 min readCircleci7 min read
Jan 19, 2020How to download a file from a remote Docker environment to the primary container in CircleCI 2.0?A nasty trick to get some data from isolated Docker environment. — The remote Docker environment is a great feature of the CircleCI build server which allows for safe runs of Docker builds and images in an isolated environment, which is auto-magically spun up for a user. While this is very convenient to use and performs well, there is one use case…Circleci2 min readCircleci2 min read
Mar 7, 2018AWS Lambdas triggered by Kinesis Streams (in Java )— a few lessons…So it’s a few months of my work with a solution implemented as a set of AWS Lambda functions in Java. …AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Jan 1, 20182017 — a few books worth readingI appreciate how books give me an insight inside another person’s world; how they see the reality, what’s their take on life. In the world of poses and pictures, there is an intimacy and privilege to reading books and a courage in writing them. Here is a short list of…Books5 min readBooks5 min read
Nov 11, 2017Insufficient data: CloudWatch alarm based on custom metric filterThis is one of those things that were difficult to google, so leaving a note here. TL;DR — if CloudWatch alarm based on custom metric filter is stuck in “INSUFFICIENT DATA” state, make sure you don’t use UNIT nor DIMENSION settings in its definition. AWS CloudWatch gives you a very…AWS2 min readAWS2 min read
Nov 6, 2017AWS Lambda in Java 8, log4j2 and scattered stack trace in CloudWatchEdit: works fine with lo4j2 appender, aws-lambda-java-log4j2 1.1.0 and aws-lambda-java-core 1.2.0. TL;DR; It’s not that obvious how to get Java stack trace to be single CloudWatch entry — using log4j2 with custom Converter may be one way to go. Scroll down to point 4 for details. Last week, I spent…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Oct 8, 2017TDD: getting convincedI wrote this post in preparation for a talk I intend to give to my co-workers aiming to convince them to do TDD. …Software Development6 min readSoftware Development6 min read
Sep 24, 2017Serverless: using serverless module for CDSome time ago I got very excited about Serverless module, which helps with deploying Lambda functions to AWS (well, not only that, but that was my use case). I really liked the tool, it was easy and convenient and got us up to speed quickly. …AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
