Steve Coffman

Sep 6, 2024 | dev.to | Steve Coffman

Event orientation is great! Whether you are using GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ, NATS JetStream, Redis Pub/Sub or any of the myriad alternatives, the Patterns you learn apply to them all. Even if you are enjoying exactly-once-delivery, you will still get similar events that you don't really want to react to multiple times. A great example of this is actionable alerts. The first time something notices a problem, that's great to escalate to get someone's attention that an action is required.

Aug 23, 2024 | star-telegram.com | Steve Coffman

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram will reduce to three print editions a week in October. If you read the print version of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, you’ve probably heard that we will reduce our days of print delivery in October. We will publish print editions on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, and they will be delivered through the U.S. mail (meaning your Sunday edition will actually arrive Saturday). To some of you, this is no big deal.

Aug 9, 2024 | dev.to | Steve Coffman

These days, gRPC is commonly used and well-supported enough that many options exist for communicating to a gRPC backend from the browser. For gRPC apps, I quite like using Connect. Connect is a family of libraries for building browser and gRPC-compatible HTTP APIs: you write a short Protocol Buffer schema and implement your application logic, and Connect generates code to handle marshaling, routing, compression, and content type negotiation.

Aug 2, 2024 | star-telegram.com | Steve Coffman

The Star-Telegram recently launched “The Edition,” an improved, curated online reading experience that is more timely than the printed paper. I wrote stories using an electric typewriter when I started in the news business in the mid-1980s. It was tedious work without the “backspace” and “delete” keys that make life easier for us on computer keyboards. I also have memories from that time of seeing the first cell phones. I recall someone carrying one around in a bag the size of a lunchbox.

Jul 14, 2024 | dev.to | Steve Coffman

GitHub lets you create a Personal Access Token (PAT) for your GitHub user. These types of tokens are used pretty much the same as the GitHub Action default token. A GitHub Action default GITHUB_TOKEN expires when a job finishes or after a maximum of 24 hours. Your GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) may expire when it's past its expiration date, but GitHub may also expire or revoke it for a variety of other reasons. It is pretty tedious to tell which if any of those other reasons have happened.