Brandon Lamb

IntroductionMy day job is being a lead software developer engineer, building JVM-based microservices (Kotlin, Micronaut, Kubernetes, Kafka, ScyllaDB). Seeing as how I work professionally with the JVM, when developing a backend server for my small-scale MMO, I prefer to write…

My team uses this on every microservice repo we have as a default. This enables all classes having certain annotations to be generated as open, as well as creating a no-arg constructor. You can remove the coroutine line if you…

Someone alerted me that the LetsEncrypt cert had expired over a month ago, hey yay that people actually read any of the few blog posts I've created. Figured I would upgrade Ghost, which wasn't easy as the version I was…

Install APT PackagesWe'll need to install some packages if they aren't already, including bridge utils and xfs for filesystem. Ubuntu 16.04 comes with LXD 2.0, with 2.14 being current stable (as of 2017-06-04). We'll add the ppm…

IntroductionI've been working on building out my virtual host servers, and figuring out how to configure them to allow building a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster, as well as using LXD containers for some VMs (instead of xen/kvm). Server statsI'm running…

I recently began diving into ElasticSearch and trying to learn the Java API. While the documentation is actually good, it also doesn't provide a clear big picture. After a few hours on trial and error, I was finally able to…

Original post was in 2016, migrating to new blogSo I came across WildFly probably a month or two ago, bookmarked as something to come back to. While reading up more on it recently I stumbled upon WildFly Swarm, which seems…

Last Friday (2016-06-24), I happened to come across and actually do some reading on Kotlin. I had heard the name once a week ago or so. It's amazing! Kotlin is a JVM language being actively developed by JetBrains (maker of…

Part of my learning curve in picking up Kotlin over the last three days was figuring out how to get dependency injection working using CDI (Java EE). I tried lateinit field injection but couldn't seem to get it working. package…

At home I have a HP ProLiant G7 N54L MicroServer. I've performed the BIOS update, swapped out the CD-ROM with a trayless swap drive and installed four 500G SATA drives. I did attempt to upgrade to 2.5" SSDs but…

PackagesThe following are standard packages I use on my host servers. xrdptightvncserver (see https://freevps.us/thread-14110.html on tightvncserver vs vnc4server)xfce4 (desktop environment, or lxde/lxqt)zfsutils-linuxhtopiftopethtooldstatufwxrdp configMy /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini looks like the following [globals] bitmap_…