Thanks to the company I’m working for (Techsys) I’ve had the opportunity to attend the configuration management camp in Gent (be) for its 2016 edition. I really enjoyed those two days of talks, watching people present different ideas of a possible future for the infrastructure and deployment engineering. Beyond the technical demonstrations and the experience sharing, I’ve spotted a bunch of ideas Among all, those that comes to me spontaneously are:

I’ve read a lot about graph theory recently. They have changed the world a lot. From the simple representation to Bayesian network via Markov chains, the applications are numerous. Today I would like to imagine a graph as a workflow of execution. Every node would be considered as runnable. And every edge would be a dependency. It is an important framework that may be used to as an orchestrator for any model, and of course I am a lot thinkingabout TOSCA

From time to time, I’m involved into a trolling conversation when any linux kiddie tells me: Bash is really the superior shell I totally disagree, but as I’m getting older, I don’t argue anymore. Anyway, in this post I will expose two arguments, or I should say two reasons, why I usually use ksh93 to run my scripts. Note I’m really talking about the engine of the script, (the shebang definition).