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Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

• There are always 24 hours in a day.
• February is always 28 days long.
• Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

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Python relative imports in AWS Lambda fail with attempted relative import with no known parent package

The Problem

In AWS Lambda if I attempt an explicit relative import like this

.
├── lambda_file.py
└── example.py

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#!/bin/bash -xe

# Below command can be replaced to the required CLI, including with custom JSON output, assuming the NextToken is in the same location.
AWS_CLI_COMMAND="aws elasticbeanstalk list-platform-versions --max-records 100 --query={NextToken:NextToken,PlatformARNs:PlatformSummaryList[*].PlatformArn}"
OUTPUT_FILE="./output-$(date +%s)"

function CLI_call() {
  if [ ! -v NEXT_TOKEN ]; then
    cli_output=$($AWS_CLI_COMMAND)
  else

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# Copyright 2018 Simon Davy
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Kubernetes Well Architected Review (WAR)

Customer: Midas Touch

Date: February 02, 2020

tags: meeting kubernetes EKS WAR

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Intent:

• Increase awareness of architectural best practices

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Diagrams

Markdown Preview Enhanced supports rendering flow charts, sequence diagrams, mermaid, PlantUML, WaveDrom, GraphViz, Vega & Vega-lite, Ditaa diagrams. You can also render TikZ, Python Matplotlib, Plotly and all sorts of other graphs and diagrams by using Code Chunk.

Please note that some diagrams don't work well with file exports such as PDF, pandoc, etc.

Flow Charts

This feature is powered by flowchart.js.

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# An example to get the remaining rate limit using the Github GraphQL API.

import requests

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR API KEY"}


def run_query(query): # A simple function to use requests.post to make the API call. Note the json= section.
    request = requests.post('https://api.github.com/graphql', json={'query': query}, headers=headers)
    if request.status_code == 200:

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#!/bin/sh

#
# Title: Auto-Update & Upload LetsEncrypt Certs to KEMP LoadMaster
# Guide/Source: https://colinwilson.uk/2017/06/19/auto-update-ssl-certificates-on-kemp-loadmaster-via-pfsense--lets-encrypt/
# Created: 12/06/2017
# Author: Colin Wilson @colinwilson
# Vendor or Software Link: https://www.pfsense.org/ , https://kemptechnologies.com
# Version: 1.1.0
# Category: BASH Shell Script

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#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Written by Nathan Prziborowski
Github: https://github.com/prziborowski
This code is released under the terms of the Apache 2
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
The property collector can be used to fetch a subset of properties
for a large amount of objects with fewer round trips that iterating.
This sample shows how to use the TraversalSpec to get properties
of another object without multiple calls.