Developer's black hole
Hi. I’m Flavio Percoco (a.k.a flaper87), and I’m a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I spend my days working on OpenStack, speaking at conferences. In my spare time I contribute to Rust, write, read, surf, travel, smoke my coffee and drink my pipe.
Back from Vancouver, towards Liberty
Fever is gone (actual fever), energies are coming back and the next six months are blurried by all the things we have ahead. Besides the fever, I'd say this is what a normal summit feels like. Or well, what the feeling after the summit is like.
Just like in every …
What's coming in Kilo for Glance, Zaqar and Oslo?
As usual, here's a write up of what happened last week during the OpenStack Summit. More than a summary, this post contains the plans we discussed for the next 6 months.
Glance
Lots of things happened in Juno for Glance. Work related to artifacts was done, async workers were implemented …
Non-opinionated software can't exist
Here's a thing. I don't believe there's such a thing like "non opinionated" software and I think we should all be more careful when we communicate what the goals of our projects are. The later may not be new to you, probably not even the former but yet, I keep …
Zaqar's pools explained
Now that I've dedicated time to explain what Zaqar's path going forward is (Zaqar being a messaging service akin to SQS/SNS), I can move on and spend some time diving into some of Zaqar's internals. For this post, I'd like to explain how Zaqar's pools work.
Zaqar's scalability is …
Zaqar's path going forward
Long time since I wrote my last post about Zaqar (ex Marconi) and I thought this one should be a summary of what has happened and what will, probably, happen going forward.
Let me start by sharing where Zaqar is in OpenStack.
At every end of the cycle - ~6 weeks …