Ops Github Digest #7 (July 21st 2014)

Hello Everybody!

Summer is going on, it's too hot for thinking much about work and stuff, everybody is want to go to vacation, right?
Right, but for everyone else trapped in stifling offices - next issue of Ops Github Digest!

1. Anode - Utility for analyzing graphite metrics. 

Experimental package.

https://github.com/mattrco/anode.exp 

Anode is a tool for experimenting with different analysis algorithms on metrics and other time series.
You have your data from Graphite, but don't know what to do with it? Try to experiment with that tool to find out:



WARNING! DANGER AHEAD! 

Some math required. :)

Please check that link for explanation how it works.


2. More awesomeness!
We have another list of awesome lists - https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome, awesome algorithms - https://github.com/tayllan/awesome-algorithms, awesome machine learning - https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning, and awesome bigdata - https://github.com/onurakpolat/awesome-bigdata
But my favorite - list of awesome T-Shirt sites - https://github.com/elder-cb/teesites !

3. Log file navigator http://lnav.org
https://github.com/tstack/lnav
Nice log reading / colorizing tool, especially for own server.


4. Another PuppetDB frontend:
Spotify's Puppetexplorer https://github.com/spotify/puppetexplorer
Has own query language and able to combine data from different PuppetDBs into one.

5. Facette
Time series data visualization and graphing software http://facette.io/
https://github.com/facette/facette
Facette is a web application to display time series data from various sources — such as collectd or Graphite — on graphs, designed to be easy to setup and to use.




6. storm is a command line tool to manage your ssh connections. 

https://github.com/emre/storm/

7. maestro-ng - Orchestration of Docker-based, multi-host environmentshttps://github.com/signalfuse/maestro-ng
Quite self-explanatory, please check if you use Docker.

8. miniLock - miniLock is a small, portable file encryption software.
https://github.com/kaepora/miniLock
New generation of modern file encryption software, which tries to proof that JS-crypto suck less nowadays.

9. And now - for you, my fellow esoteric programming language freaks!




Escher: A language for programming in metaphors 

https://github.com/gocircuit/escher 

Truly mind blowing if you have enough patience to wrap your mind around it. :)

Sporadic Ops Github Digest #6 (July 14th 2014)

Hi All!
I'm (again, still fighting with lazyness - and overcoming it) presenting our next digest:

1. cv - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, ...
https://github.com/Xfennec/cv
One image is better than thousand words:

2. powerline-shell - A beautiful and useful prompt for your shell
https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell
Yes, it is nice shell from picture above:


3. awesome-perl - A curated list of awesome Perl frameworks and libraries.
https://github.com/mackee/awesome-perl
At last! Perl!!!!11111

4. awesone-awesome-awesome - A a curated list of curated lists of awesome lists.
https://github.com/t3chnoboy/awesome-awesome-awesome
Ha-ha-ha-ha! Made my day!
And of course, there's awesome-awesome-awesome-awesome list too - for now, containing only list above...

5. More stuff for Python learning:

https://github.com/rasbt/python_reference - Useful functions, tutorials, and other Python-related things

https://github.com/s16h/py-must-watch - Must-watch videos about Python

6. The automated Pokémon speedrunning machine
https://github.com/kylecoburn/PokeBot
An automated computer program that speedruns Pokémon, which you can run on own computer. I'm not big fan of Pokemon and speedruns, but fan of old consoles. :) Also nice piece of good Lua code with AI.

Sporadic Ops Github Digest #5 (July 10th 2014)

"Did you missed me?" :)

Was quite busy. So, let's continue our fascinating journey to amazing world of interesting and/or useful (to the Ops engineers) Github projects!

1. A shell console with GUI features http://xiki.org
https://github.com/trogdoro/xiki
Did you see that awesomeness? If not - go to http://xiki.org and give it a try. It's definitely some fresh air for old and stale world of 70's unix shells.

Did you start own "awesome" list of something? Not yet?
Now we have bunch of them - Scala, Go, but my favorite is :

2. Awesome awesomeness - A curated list of awesome awesomeness.
https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

3. A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
https://github.com/hickford/MechanicalSoup
Same thing as Perl's WWW-Mechanize and Ruby's Mechanize - but compatible with python 2.x and 3.x and using Requests and BeautifulSoup as engine.

4. Snabb Switch: Fast open source packet processing
https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch
Very interesting project of open-source Lua-powered bare metal ethernet switch/router/firewall. Check that article for start - Snabb Switch - Skip The OS And Get 40 Million Requests Per Second In Lua

5. The next-generation email platform 

https://www.inboxapp.com/
https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox
Also very interesting project - Mail retrieval engine + API - you can collect email from various sources and retrieve it in your app/service - python-based and ready to run on your laptop or server.

6. 500 Lines or Less
https://github.com/aosabook/500lines
Not very interesting for now, but put it to your bookmarks or watch it on Github. New "The Architecture of Open Source Applications"-like book will be there soon.

7. Easily use tmux to collaborate with distant friends!
https://github.com/non/pairing
Small tool for pair programming over sharing your terminal with tmux.

8. Flappybird clone for Vim
https://github.com/mattn/flappyvird-vim
Just for fun! Awesome stuff! :)

Sporadic Gihub Ops Digest #4 (July 5th 2014)

I'm continuing to collect interesting Github repos (for Ops people but other geeks too):

1. Awesome Ruby.
A collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software https://github.com/markets/awesome-ruby
We have a Amazing PHP, Python, Ruby and sysadmin repos. But where's Perl ?

2. Vex.
Run a command in the named virtualenv. https://github.com/sashahart/vex

3. Rainbow Stream.
Terminal-based Twitter Client. https://github.com/DTVD/rainbowstream

4. statsrelay
A consistent-hashing relay for statsd metrics https://github.com/uber/statsrelay
5. EulerPy
Python-based Project Euler command line tool.
http://iKevinY.github.io/EulerPy
https://github.com/iKevinY/EulerPy

6. ReplayLastGoal
Automatically create an animated gif with the latest goal at the world cup
https://github.com/xdamman/ReplayLastGoal
Just for fun!

Sporadic Ops GitHub digest #3 (02 Jul 2014)

We are still rollin'. Go!

1. Tessera.
A dashboard front-end for graphite 

https://github.com/urbanairship/tessera
Good and promising Graphite dashboard.

2. BitAuth
Authenticate with web services utilizing the same strategy as Bitcoin.
https://github.com/bitpay/bitauth
Proposal for a new passwordless authentication protocol which is not storing user passwords at all. :)
See their blog for details.

3. cheap secrets
Store your passwords in git
https://github.com/bpo/cheap-secrets
Personal password storage in Git, nice. PGP encrypted, of course.

4. doitlive
doitlive is a tool for live presentations in the terminal. It reads a file of shell commands and replays the commands in a fake terminal session as you type random characters.
https://github.com/sloria/doitlive
If you need to do presentations of your terminal sessions.

5. Ambassadord - A Docker ambassador (containerized TCP reverse proxy / forwarder) that supports static forwards, DNS-based forwards (with SRV), Consul+Etcd based forwards, or forwards based on the connecting container's intended backend (read: magic).
https://github.com/progrium/ambassadord
Too much to explain. :) Read about Docker first.

Sporadic Ops GitHub digest #2 (01 Jul 2014)

Second issue of mine Sporadic Ops GitHub digest.

1. A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and resources. 

Inspired by awesome-php
https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python
Tons of useful stuff for pythonistas.

2. A well-written BSD licensed C language TLS implementation
https://github.com/wbl/SolidTLS
Another fork/rewrite of OpenSSL 'bloatware', good to know.

3. Simplistic interactive filtering tool
https://github.com/peco/peco
Cool little console tool, check screencasts for details.

4. Wrk - Modern HTTP benchmarking tool
https://github.com/wg/wrk
Lua-powered multi- thread / core HTTP benchmarking tool.

Sporadic Ops GitHub digest #1 (30 Jun 2014)

For no specific reason I decided to put some interesting for Ops engineer (on my opinion) Github projects to periodical (I hope) but quite sporadic digest.

So, what we have for today, in no particular order:

1. UNIX command line client for Twitter written in Go 

https://github.com/ajensenwaud/gwitter 

Just toy for now, please contribute.

2. Terminal-based SoundCloud client. 

Without all these stupid CSS files. Runs on OSX and Linux https://github.com/grobie/soundcloud2000

3. An open-source graph database by Google 

https://github.com/google/cayley
Good competitor for Neo4J (maybe, someday, in future).

4. Securely and anonymously share a file of any size 

https://onionshare.org/
https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare 

Tricky mix of Tor and python, I like that!

5. A drop-in, low-overhead monitoring web dashboard for a linux machine https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash 

Simple PHP-based dashboard for one server.

6. Ajenti - the web admin panel everyone wants. http://ajenti.org
https://github.com/Eugeny/ajenti 

Neat web admin panel, looks cool and modern!

7. Offline version of Project Euler 

https://github.com/imsky/LocalEuler

8. A Python framework for creating interactive Twitter bots 

https://github.com/thricedotted/twitterbot