There are a couple of ways to create a token on Solana. You would be to use an intermediary to do the minting for you (and pay for this service) Mint your own token using the solana toolkit This blog looks at option #2 Lets install the solana toolkit and create a wallet that will be used to fund the minting of our token MacOS / Linux sh -c “$(curl -sSfL https://release.solana.com/v1.10.8/install)"

GitOps is a pull based model that uses Git as the source of truth for application and Infra code. State (Actual vs Desired) is managed via an operator that runs in your kubernetes cluster What Is It GitOps is a paradigm for kubernetes cluster management that uses Git as the source of trust…

To better understand and define reliability through the use of performance methodologies and principles Question Can we improve the reliability of a system by employing various performance engineering techniques to different stages of the development process? This is a look at how a solid Performance Engineering strategy that uses Reliability principles…

Can we increase our understanding and expectations of a system by combining various functional automation tests at different steps within the development lifecycle? We look at the fundamental disciplines of unit, integration, API, UI and infrastructure automation. …

Blue Gum Forest hike from Mt Victoria train station to Blackheath train station The hike took Just over 14h (12h moving time) and had an elevation gain of approx 1200m Prologue The expectation was that we would start from the Mount Victoria train station around 9am, make our way up victoria falls road to the Narrow lookout where the Vic falls walking track starts. …

5 of us set out from Sydney on a Friday evening to tackle the ~100km walk from Apollo bay to the 12 apostles in Victoria Australia on the Great Ocean walk. Logistics / Plan Friday night flight to Avalon on Jetstar Pick up the hire car at Avalon airport and drive to Apollo…

To provide an easy mechanism for running Jmeter tests using Taurus from a docker container against a particular endpoint and logging the results Pull the repo: git clone https://gitlab.com/sgriffiths/jmeter-taurus-docker.git && cd jmeter-taurus-docker To Run: This will run the simple load test against ‘blazemeterdemo.com/reserve.php’ endpoint: Running from the terminal should look…