Annual Review

Lets face it, part of the reason I post to this blog is for self promotion. 
I consider it an extended resume.

Here is my 2014 annual review:

 

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Stubs vs Mocks

Mocks are objects pre-programmed with expectations which form a specification of the calls they are expected to receive. 
Stubs provide canned answers to calls made during the test, usually not responding at all to anything outside what's programmed in for the test. Stubs may also record information about calls.

Mocks insist upon behavior verification.
Stubs use state verification.

For a Stub you have already written with predetermined behavior.
A Mock is something that as part of your test you have to setup with your expectations.

References;
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3459287/whats-the-difference-between-a-mock-stub
http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html
http://www.drdobbs.com/testing/using-mocks-in-python/240168251

ELK oops

Moral of the story:  if you want to retain 7 days of logs aggregated across all of your APIs... make sure u have enough disk space for all the Elasticsearch indices.

Notice the 'free disk space' bottoms out and then once the system is hosed there is disk space reclaimed by the daily 'cleanup script'.  One index gets purged a day until they are all gone (and no new ones were created cuz the system was hosed due to the crash).

Car Todo

WaterPump replacement:
http://clubsciontc.com/forums/diy-install-guides-23/water-pump-with-diy-21331/?page=2

Belt Tensioner replacement:
http://clubsciontc.com/forums/diy-install-guides-23/belt-tensioner-with-diy-22720/


Serpentine Belt replacement:
http://clubsciontc.com/forums/maintenance-repair-58/serpentine-belt-diagram-help-please-49914/

Home Improvement Todo

Rather irregular post here...   but I just got the oil bill for the month and goddamnit.

Quick basement window insulation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnjoPNquvJk

Hot water pipe insulation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqGrYK_jRkQ

will probly post other stuff in here when i stumble on other things

Python and AWS tooling

S3cmd is a tool for managing objects in Amazon S3 storage. 

It allows for making and removing "buckets" and uploading, 

downloading and removing "objects" from these buckets.
 

http://s3tools.org/s3cmd-sync pip install s3cmd 

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The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your 
AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can 
control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them 
through scripts. 

http://aws.amazon.com/cli/ pip install awscli  

Mongo - MMS and OpsManager

Seems that OpsManager is the new MMS. Seems that it got renamed moving from v1.5 to v1.6.  Weird thing is, the documentation for 1.5 has a newer data on it that 1.6. So was a bit confusing.

• OpsManager / MMS Release Notes:
•  v1.6
• https://docs.opsmanager.mongodb.com/current/release-notes/application/

•  v.15
• https://docs.opsmanager.mongodb.com/v1.5/release-notes/application/
• https://docs.opsmanager.mongodb.com/v1.5/release-notes/monitoring-agent/
• https://docs.opsmanager.mongodb.com/v1.5/release-notes/backup-agent/

• Manuals:
• https://docs.opsmanager.mongodb.com/v1.6/opsmanager-manual.pdf
• https://docs.opsmanager.mongodb.com/v1.5/mms-manual.pdf

Why use OpsManager instead of doing it yourself?

• http://www.mongodb.com/faq#Backup_vs._traditional

(Download) Where can I get OpsManager?

• http://www.mongodb.com/subscription/downloads/ops-manager

Simply Setup Guide:

• https://docs.opsmanager.mongodb.com/current/tutorial/install-simple-test-deployment/

Other:

• Regular MongoDB release notes:
• Mongo 3.0 RN: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/release-notes/3.0/
• Mongo 2.6 RN: http://docs.mongodb.org/v2.6/release-notes/2.6/

Building PCs

How many PCs can grampa destroy in one month?
one? two? threeeeee?  ::crunch::
No matter. We'll have Layla fix em.