Reloading config without a restart
A config file changes. Someone edits a setting, rotates a credential, flips a feature flag. How does the running process find out? For most processes the answer is blunt: it doesn’t, until you restart it. For a …
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Lifecycle management for when your CLI grows up into a service
There’s a moment in the life of a lot of CLI tools where they stop being a CLI tool. Nobody quite decides it. It just happens. Someone needs the thing to also expose a little HTTP endpoint, or poll a queue, or run a …
Pre-populating Neo4J using Kubernetes Init Containers and neo4j-admin import
Recently there has been an uptake in the use of Neo4j by the Data Scientists. This is a good thing! they are wanting to use the right tool for the job. However we need to run it inside our k8s cluster as a portable …
