After my kid asked me to download and install an auto-clicker, I saw this as a teachable moment to build one in Java. I could talk about the different concepts Java offers and also explore a new API in the Java API. Source code: package org.ea; import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.InputEvent; import java.awt.event.KeyEvent; import […]

Doing a manual upgrade of my Ceph cluster. In the same process, I get the Debian operating system upgraded that my Ceph cluster is running on. The new version of Ceph called Pacific requires some extra measures and when you’ve updated you can’t go back.

In this video, I look into installing and enabling orchestration using cephadm. Then I will perform an automatic upgrade with cephadm. I talk about my findings and go through all the steps.

We look into lambda functions in java using example code and understand what functions could help you with. Java has many new concepts that could help you, and lambda is just one of them. For example, you could create Suppliers that give you a value, Consumers that use a value, and then functional interfaces.