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Understanding Toil in Software Engineering

Insights from Google SRE

• Toil is repetitive, manual work that scales with system growth

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If you are a developer and use Visual Studio Code (VSCode), then I recommend that you use GistPad

https://aka.ms/gistpad

Super helpful to view and work with your gists right within VSCode

Does automatic sync with your github and use VSCode interface to view, write and udpate your gists.

Build your own workflow to take notes, build knowledge base that is your own!

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How to run http server on your local?

as of Jan 2025, Option (1) still is my preferred way of running http server on my macbook!

1) Using Python

Python comes pre-installed on macOS and provides a simple way to start a local server:

1. For Python 3:

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{
    "AL": "Alabama",
    "AK": "Alaska",
    "AS": "American Samoa",
    "AZ": "Arizona",
    "AR": "Arkansas",
    "CA": "California",
    "CO": "Colorado",
    "CT": "Connecticut",
    "DE": "Delaware",

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# suggested by https://x.com/ky__zo/status/1872641995703046246

gp() {
    git add .
    git commit -m "$1"
    git push
}

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shared accounts have scaling limits

each dept has their own account does not always work well

• issues with reorgs and reassignment of projects

accounts around apps or micro services -->

make sure that the governance mechanisms do not slow you down and not let you move faster

embrace the genius of the AND.

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• SSH Keys with multiple Github accounts https://medium.com/@trionkidnapper/ssh-keys-with-multiple-github-accounts-c67db56f191e

There are 3 levels of git config; project, global and system.

• project: Project configs are only available for the current project and stored in .git/config in the project's directory.

  $ git config user.name "John Doe"

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{
  "title": "TOML Example",
  "owner": {
    "name": "Tom Preston-Werner",
    "organization": "GitHub",
    "bio": "GitHub Cofounder & CEO\n\tLikes \"tater tots\" and beer and backslashes: \\",
    "dob": "1979-05-27T07:32:00.000Z"
  },
  "database": {
    "server": "192.168.1.1",