Sometimes Kill -9 Isn’t Enough

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:00:25 -0600

If there’s one thing to know about distributed systems, it’s that they have to be designed with the expectation of failure. It’s also safe to say that most software these days is, in some form, distributed—whether it’s a database, mobile app, or enterprise SaaS. If you have two different processes talking to each other, you have a distributed system, and it doesn’t matter if those processes are local or intergalactically displaced.

He Sed, She Sed

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 03:26:10 -0600

Shortly after switching to GitHub, I decided to relicense Infinitum from GNU LGPL to Apache License 2.0. There aren’t really any implications except one: replacing the license and copyright header in every source file.

I’m far from being a Unix expert (more like amateur at best), but I figured sed would be the quickest and easiest way to do this. Sed is a Unix utility for processing text streams, and it allows you to replace string patterns in files. A simple string replacement using sed is quite easy:

Bash on Brave New Geek

Sometimes Kill -9 Isn’t Enough

He Sed, She Sed