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Cromtit as Raku alternative to Apache Airflow
Cromtit was born as a simple wrapper around Sparky jobs scheduler, but it turned out it could be more than that: Hosts are VMs with installed Sparky agents: So, in nutshell, Cromit allows one to run their jobs in distributed environments similar to Apache Airflow. However instead of Python Cromtit uses Bash and Raku as…
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Chasing Rakudo bugs with Sparrow
Since I announced a RICH – Rakudo Issues Confirmation Helper, I’ve been playing a lot with an automation of test cases for known Rakudo bugs. One thing I’ve found really interesting in this journey is how Sparrow could be a good fit to express issues through automation scenarios. While I am not pretending on substituting…
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Sparky on k8s cluster
Sparky is a lightweight CI server written on Raku. It uses Bailador for UI and Sparrow/Sparrowdo as an automation engine. Initially the server was written to be run on a single machine and did not scale well. So it only could handle a small/medium load, mostly working in localhost mode. Now, with the help of…
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Rakudo Issues Player
Rakudo releases could be tough. Because the language is still in very development stage. New issues arrive daily. Let’s me introduce my attempt to help release managers and Rakudo developers to keep track of addressing existing issues with daily Rakudo commits. Enter a RIP service ( maybe I should choose a better name ? )…
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Lightweight Markdown-to-PDF converter: pfft
Originally posted on I Fight for the Users: I just released the first version of my new Markdown-to-PDF converter, pfft. It runs on Linux, at least as far back as Ubuntu 18.04. Why yet another converter when pandoc and many others already do the job? Size. Pandoc uses TeX to generate PDFs. All the other…
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RakuPlay introduction
I’ve recently launched an experimental service called RakuPlay. It allows users to run Raku code snippets against different version of Rakudos including Rakudo developers SHA commits. It also supports automatic Raku modules installation using Rakufile syntax. A common user page looks like that: Rakudo developer page allows to run a code against certain Rakudo commits:…
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Raku-Utils Proposal
Sparrow is a Raku based automation tool comes with the idea of Sparrow plugins – small reusable pieces of code, runs as a command line or Raku function. Raku: Cli: One can even create wrappers for existing command line tools converting them into Raku functions: Wrapper code: Raku function: Wrappers for Raku modules command line…
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RakuOps. Issue Number 2.
“RakuOps series – an attempt to show people who write on Raku how to use the language in daily DevOps tasks – automation, configuration management, Docker containers and so on“ It’s been two weeks I’ve been playing with Sparrowdo – an automation tool written on Raku and based on Sparrow automation framework. Now it’s a…
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RakuOps. Issue 1.
RakuOps series – an attempt to show people who write on Raku how to use the language in daily DevOps tasks – automation, configuration management, Docker containers building and so on. While I don’t know for sure which topics will attract the community interest, I hope that during this series I’ll get some feedback so…
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Managing External Raku Dependencies using Sparrow
A few days ago several discussions have been launched where people try to deal with managing none Raku / native dependencies for Raku modules. While a solution is far from being found or at least is complete here is my, Sparrow take on the problem. Raku-native-deps Raku-native-deps is a Sparrow plugin to parse META6.json file…
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