SparkleFormation templates are generally composed of items from multiple locations: builtins, local SparklePack, remote SparklePacks, etc. Complex ...

Building support for Azure into SparkleFormation required the ability to programatically generate complex nested strings. Lets have a quick look a ...

A short story on the origin of the SparkleFormation library. SparkleFormation - an origin storySparkleFormation is a Ruby library that was born ou ...

A new approach at dependency solving. GrimoireA couple years ago I was at the Chef summit, and had a session with some of my workmates on cookbook ...

Generic application configuration implementation within Ruby. Application ConfigurationA few months ago I wrote a little bit about application con ...

New Ruby cloud API library with a specific purpose. Cloud Infrastructure APII’ve been using fog for a long time, and have added a few different fe ...

Building attribute structures with Ruby. The origin storyI’m a big fan of JSON serialization and Hash/Array collection types in general. Awhile ba ...

Thoughts on application configuration and snowflake implementations. Hashes == 42 (how I came to love hashes)Hashes have always just been another ...

Krakow is a Ruby client library for NSQ. The current 0.2.0 release pulls it out of its initial “alpha” phase, providing a feature complete client ...

Internode communication via flocks of chefs. Flock of ChefsWhen building and configuring nodes (assuming with Chef) one issue that will commonly c ...