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As the new year arrives, I want to look back briefly on 2018 and some highlights, in no particular order…
At my day job I am migrating one of our websites to AWS. It is fronted by Akamai and we are using the Phased Release Cloudlet to split traffic between the on-premise instances and the AWS instances during our migration. One of the options in the configuration is to enable failover. If the new origin returns a error code, it stops sending traffic to the new origin for a configurable duration.
So it has been over a year since I first posted my daily routine, what worked, what didn't, and what I felt I needed to do different. That post has been a favorite, so I figured a year-later followup would be useful.
You may have seen my daily routine a while back. On top of having a daily routine, I find its important to have a weekly routine as well.
Historical Polymaths
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, he epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.*
As part of the Google Developers Group in Seattle, I presented an introduction to writing Go. Starts at 53 minutes. Slides at https://github.com/jhulten/presentation-learning-golang.