Finally, I can write something in my blog after months of inactivity. The last few months is the craziest months I ever pass up until now, there’s a lot of ups and downs for me personally and also in some teams I work with. I think it is a little bit similar to how my body weight behave. Around February this year, I think is the best time I ever had my body weight increased up to 67 kgs (it is a good number for 170 cm guys like me, I was only 53 kgs guys when I was in high school). I’m starting to reach 67 kgs again after months loosing my weight.

I want to tell story about my task today. The story began from when I was in high school. I was very interested with computer, but when I graduated from high school, my parents little bit skeptical about career in computing since they have no idea about what it is and at that time career in computing is not popular as it is now. So, I decided to enter engineering physics program in one of the biggest university in the country. Well, at that time admitted here is relatively easy. I’m not that smart and the program was not popular at that time.

It is Monday, I starting my workday by having a hands all Monday meeting in the company lounge. This is where we share each other department update. Very interesting to be part of a growing company. In the middle of the update, sometimes I take a look to some graphs of service I maintain. One of them showing me some anomaly where one of the service node having disk space usage increasing time by time in the last 5 days. I’ve been looking to it before weekend but was not take it that serious. Turned out it takes 100% of disk space and some of the functionality of the app did not work as expected. So bad.

Sometime I got a use case where I require some configuration in form of environment variables for my Docker image. And in the past I often re-invent how I create the script to fallback to some value if the environment was not set. Now I want to share about how I did it. It’ll be useful for me in the future for you.

I’ve been contributed to some projects that has an example config that similar to these or any other variations

Recently, I have a use case to build multi-language packages of Angular app which need to be done in compile time. I need a case where I need to compile the app in parallel since the number of language is increasing month by month. Although I still don’t have a good solution for this problem, I have a workaround for the number of language I have.

Finally, I can create another post on my blog after a very busy schedule for the last few months. I’ve been very busy helping my employer maintaining their disbursement system and also internal build and release infrastructure. It is because I’m a mix between software and system engineer and my employer allow me to do both at the same time. Enough about myself. Let’s talk about some idea.