This article logs my experiments with the AI Assistant, a Generative AI service from JetBrains that keeps you in the IDE, asking questions of an expert chatbot. The service provides a pane that is docked alongside of your coding tools, so you don’t have to keep jumping out to Google to grab a code snippet. It also provides some refactoring features as well. Read on for more information.
The Continuing Mission In the evolving landscape of Android App development for the Enterprise, there is an aspect that often takes a back seat – accessibility. In brief, this blogpost will cover: Why it is important to prioritize accessibility as a fundamental aspect of the development process, particularly for large-scale and complex organizations What accessibility features and APIs are available to the modern app developer, along with a quick discussion of some common accessibility problems we often see How an…
Following my post about the Chariot Data Engineering interview, I received some comments along the lines of “wait, you don’t test their SQL skills?!?” Actually, we do: after loading up the test data into Redshift, the candidate creates three progressively difficult queries. But by then, I’m pretty sure they’ve got the skills we need, because in my experience, SQL is only a small part of a Data Engineer’s job. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) originated at Google, and focuses on “improv[ing]…
EKS Pod Identity is a feature that enables applications running on EKS to securely access AWS services, such as AWS Secrets Manager, without the need for hardcoding or managing access credentials. Instead, EKS Pod Identity uses IAM roles to grant permissions to pods, allowing them to interact with AWS services seamlessly. In my last post, I showed an example of a pod fetching objects from S3 using pod identity. But let’s create a more real world example: using pod identity…
We recently held an internal hackathon at Chariot and invited all employees — including non-technical staff — to participate. The aim was to have some fun, work on something interesting, and potentially learn a new skill.
Recently AWS released EKS Pod Identity which simplifies how cluster administrators can configure Kubernetes applications to obtain AWS IAM permissions. With Pod Identity you can assign an IAM role to a K8s service account using the new AWS API create-pod-identity-association and the EKS pod identity agent. When a pod starts with the associated service account, the identity agent will inject credentials so the pod can call AWS services. Here we will create a simple demo allowing a pod to access…
Hiring good candidates is difficult. After nearly 40 years in this business, and interviewing hundreds of candidates, I’m not going to claim that I have the answer. Just some ideas.
Lear how to fetch metrics and create custom endpoints for a Prometheus ServiceMonitor to scrape using the prometheus_client library in Python.
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer promises to “detect potential defects that are difficult for developers to find,” using machine learning to identify potential problems. But how does it compare to existing rule-based tools? In this post I turn CodeGuru loose on a seven-year-old library that’s in use by 3,000 people, to see what issues it flags.
With version 21, Java got virtual (lightweight) threads. This feature has received a lot of press, but will it actually help you? In this post I review the theoretical benefits of virtual threads, and then show actual results from a benchmark.
