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Published on November 29, 2024 by

Searching Python Code based on its AST using XPath

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Das effektive durchforsten von Code und präzise finden von bestimmten Code-Stellen wird in grossen Software-Projekten zu einer wichtigen Aufgabe. Werkzeuge wie Regular Expressions kommen irgendwann an ihre Grenzen. Ich zeige ein Werkzeug, mit dem Python-Code anhand seines ASTs durchsucht werden kann.

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Published on November 28, 2024 by

Filling the Fridge - My onboarding @ cloudscale

If a new fridge arrives, the urge to just plug it, fill it with beverages and enjoy a cold one is big. But the setup actually requires quite some steps to ensure that the device runs reliably for a long time with low maintenance, so does a proper onboarding process. In this blog post I will use this odd analogy to describe my onboarding process as a Software Engineer in the Dev Team at cloudscale.

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Published on November 27, 2024 by

Staggering Restarts in Ceph

How we restart OSDs in our Ceph clusters to avoid customer impact.

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