awk-hack-the-planet

This and all the other similar posts that way overconfidently state "you don't need k8s" seem to miss the most important factor IMHO: Do you know it or would you have to learn it? If you have already been using K8s and you build a side project or launch a new startup, then K8s is probably a great choice for you even if you only have one Deployment and Ingress route. I can take a new app (assuming it already runs in docker) and have it running in a brand new k8s cluster is 20 minutes. I could have it running on a static ec2 instance/linode/droplet/whatever in 30 minutes, but then you have to solve a ton of problems yourself such as CI/CD and deployment automation, etc that k8s gives you for free. K8s is a great choice if you already know how to use it. This also seems to miss that for startups the best path to k8s is a managed k8s solu

I try not to plug it every time I see a submission about awk, but here I must recommend freedomben's presentation "awk: Hack the Planet!" [0] It starts off with similar background and praises for a few minutes before spending the rest of the hour crash coursing you through awk, then leaving you with a very approachable, digestible, and realistic set of exercises (and optionally, a second video covering his solutions). I keep a text file with a copy of the questions and my solutions on a public gh repo, so I can quickly refer to it from anywhere when needed. I am much more powerful on the command line because of it. [Edit] [0] https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet Originally encountered @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25144697

For people that know Ruby, if you haven't explored Ruby's CLI abilities, you definitely, definitely should[1][2]. When I was building my (free and open source) awk course[3] I fell in love with awk. When I later found out that Ruby has some of the same features, it changed my life: [1]: https://robm.me.uk/2013/11/ruby-enp/ [2]: https://benoithamelin.tumblr.com/ruby1line/ [3]: https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet

Nice article. Seems we went through a very similar progression! :-D If anyone is interested in learning more, I built a conference talk to teach awk, and a set of exercises also that has gotten pretty positive feedback: Presentation: https://youtu.be/43BNFcOdBlY Exercises (for you to try): https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet Exercises (me solving): https://youtu.be/4UGLsRYDfo8

Kind of a shameless plug, but you mentioned wanting to get better at Awk. I had that same desire and created a small course based on what I learned. The course got great feedback. I've gotten a lot of nice emails from people thanking me for making Awk understandable to them for the first time. I love getting those kinds of messages! There is a video presentation, and a set of "challenges" you can use to incrementally get more complex with awk, starting from super simple. The challenges repo is on github here: https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet If you want to watch the videos, there are links in the github repo but for convenience: Presentation video: https://youtu.be/43BNFcOdBlY My solutions to exercises video: https://youtu.be/4UGLsRYDfo8

Completely agree. I was absolutely blown away at how much I loved this book. I sat down to read it and ending up losing 4 hours to it! The book inspired me to build a little course on Awk to (hopefully) share the love: https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet. I gave that course as a talk at Linux Fest Northwest in 2019 and then again in 2020 due to popularity. When Covid hit I recorded videos and put them on Youtube. There are links in the Github page above if you want to watch them. I wasn't intending to self plug, but I guess it does feel relevant :-)

The new namespaces look interesting, although I really don't think the lack of namespaces it what has hindered Awk from widespread use. I am speculating of course, but as someone who evangelizes Awk the most common thing I hear from people as to why they don't use it, is that they just don't know the language all that well. For people that don't know much about Awk, it looks really complex and esoteric. To address the Awk ignorance, I put together a talk for Linux Fest Northwest last year, and it was so popular that I gave it again (virtually due to COVID-19) this year. The conference was fully remote so the talk is on Youtube. If you've ever wanted to learn Awk, this will take you from zero to proficient. There are exercises as well for practice: * Presentation: https://youtu.be/43BNFcOdBlY * Exercises: - Source: https://github.com/

This is an excellent blog post. I will refer people to this! He touches on all of the important points. If you want a more thorough/deep exploration of Awk, I recently gave a talk on it (virtually) at Linux Fest Northwest (LFNW) 2020. Awk: Hack the planet['s text]! Part 1 (Presentation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43BNFcOdBlY Awk: Hack the planet['s text]! Part 2 (Exercises):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UGLsRYDfo8 If you want to try your hand at the exercises, they are on github: https://github.com/FreedomBen/awk-hack-the-planet