A few months ago, I noticed my app was having CPU spikes. Read on to see how I diagnosed the issue on a running production server.

How we built the Woogles backend messaging system using NATS and Websockets.

Our site is looking prettier now. My friend Conrad is doing the design for the site; the above is a very early version of what he’s already designed, and we have a team working to bring it to life. I’m mostly in charge of the backend, but doing a little front end work on the API. We finally got a full game timer working; I based the code mostly on lichess’s.

A small team of us have been working very hard on a project that I internally call “liwords”. The inspiration is obviously lichess.org. Why not do for crossword board games what lichess did for chess? This has been a dream of mine for a few years since I first saw that wonderful site. Although we are very far from being done, I hit a minor milestone recently on Twitch (I sometimes stream coding on Twitch).

I’m going to log more of my progress on the apps that I wrote about in an earlier post, in an attempt to: make myself more likely to work on these apps write a log for me and others and drum up some excitement! ;) Monte Carlo simulation is basically working on Macondo. I expect that since I just got it working, that I’ll discover some bugs and special cases, and there’s so much more I want to do with it, but for now I’m excited that I got it working.

I have a lot of ideas for improving the state of tournament and recreational Scrabble, mostly revolving around the technological aspect of things. I am aware that there are many other ways in which it is lacking, but my expertise is in technology, and that’s probably the best way I can make an impact

Around April of 2017 I wrote this article about moving my side project to a single-node Kubernetes cluster: https://hackernoon.com/lessons-learned-from-moving-my-side-project-to-kubernetes-c28161a16c69 As of today, the infrastructure is still running strong, although I’ve run into a few issues I will talk about later in this article. I initially set up my node as a $10/month node but it was barely not powerful enough. Since then, Digital Ocean seems to have roughly doubled the CPU/memory for each of its instances, so $10 might work out.

I have been coding in one form or another since I was around 8 years old, on my brother’s calculator that had around 450 bytes of program memory, and I’ve been videogaming since I was 6 (my dad bringing an NES from the US back to my native Caracas was one of my happiest memories). But why not combine both those loves? I’ve been wanting to make an emulator for ages but for some reason or another I’ve kept putting it off.

docker run -it -p 8181:8000 -v /home/ubuntu/word_db:/db:ro --env-file webolith/config/config.env domino14/webolith:latest (and 8180 instead of 8181) on home machine ab -kc 100 -n 1000 For haproxy stuff apt-get install ruby gem install haproxyctl Need a haproxy.cfg file that exposes the socket. Need latest HAProxy: https://haproxy.debian.net/#?distribution=Ubuntu&release=trusty&version=1.6 Take down a server cleanly sudo haproxyctl set server servers/server2 state drain Need to set up health checks, and figure out when a server is done draining