The blog of Robert Hafner
At DevOpsDays Chicago this year I found myself answering a lot of questions in random hallway talks, which inspired me to have an entire session at IaCConf this year devoted to answering questions from the audience. These questions and more are answered in my talk, but if you have your own questions not touched on…
I was lucky enough to participate in this panel at IaCConf on AI and ML in the world of Infrastructure as Code. In the spirit of using AI tools to make my life easier, here’s an AI generated summary of the panel. This panel discussion explores the impact of AI and ML on infrastructure as…
As someone who’s spent years diving into the intricacies of Terraform and OpenTofu, I’ve seen the chaos that comes with “yolo deploying” (rushing changes without verification, only to face outages, compatibility snags, or unexpected bugs). My recent presentation at the first ever Infrastructure as Code Conference highlights a critical shift every team should embrace: treating testing as a non-negotiable cornerstone of infrastructure development.
Robert Hafner at the Open Source Summit: Bringing CI/CD Practices to Machine Learning with MLOps
SQLAlchemy is a powerful tool that lets Python developers define their database schemas using simple classes. I made Paracelsus to turn those SQLAlchemy defined databases into diagrams that can be used to visualize the schema.
Robert Hafner on The IaC Podcast.
JShrink is a Javascript minifier written in pure PHP. It allows web applications such as Magento and Matomo (as well as thousands of other projects) to shrink Javascript code on the fly. In 2014 JShrink reached stability, and shortly after that hit the milestone of 100k total downloads- today JShrink has over 21 million downloads,…
Rob’s Awesome Python Template is a highly configurable CookieCutter template that’s packed full of best practices for Python Projects.
QuasiQueue is a MultiProcessing library for Python that makes it super easy to have long running MultiProcess jobs. It handles process creation and cleanup, signal management, cross process communication, and all the other garbage that makes people hate dealing with multiprocessing.
The action-python-lockfile-update project is a Github Action, freely available for anyone to use, that uses pip-tools to rebuild your requirements.txt files on a schedule.