Zulip VS terraform

To all the people asking about self-hosted alternatives, I can recommend zulip[0], and this article[1] explaining why.

[0] https://zulip.com/

[1] https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two...

Zulip — Real-time chat with a unique email-like threading model. The free plan includes 10,000 messages of search history and File storage up to 5 GB. also, it provides a self-hostable open-source version.

(1) Zulip Chat - https://zulip.com/ - seems to be reasonably popular, but more people should know about it

I’ve been using it for over 5 years now [1], and it’s as good as ever. It’s way faster than any other chat app I’ve used. It has a good UI and conversation model. It has a simple and functional API that lets me curl threads and write blog posts based on them.

(only problem is that I Ctrl-+ in my browser to make the font bigger – I think it’s too dense for most people)

(2) re2c regex to state machine compiler - https://re2c.org

A gem from the 90’s, which people have done a great job maintaining and improving (getting Go and Rust target support in the last few years). I started using it in 2016, and used for a new program a few months ago. I came to the conclusion that it should have been built into C, because C has shitty string processing – and Ken Thompson both invented C AND brought regular languages to computing !!

In comparison, treesitter lexers are very low level, fiddly, and error prone. I recently saw dozens of ad hoc fixes to the tree-sitter-bash lexer, which is unsurprising if you look at the structure of the code (manually crawling through backslashes and braces in C).

https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash/blob/master/...

These fixes are definitely appreciated, but I think it indicates a problem with the model itself.

(based on https://lobste.rs/s/endspx/software_you_are_thankful_for#c_y...)

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/04/26.html

A few more truly in the vibe of open source projects not advertising their hosting providers: https://plane.so/ , https://element.io/ , https://www.loomio.com/ , https://zulip.com/ , and it keeps going... Very few open source projects, in the FOSS sense, are advertising their hosting provider.

I was so excited to see this happen!

I'm not a customer of yours, but your blog posts inspired me a lot. Your journey through quitting caffeine is a great and heartening read.

I've got two things to say;

1) Will you consider source-availabling the web portal (app.keygen.sh) too? Some enterprises could use it for easy management/support for custoner's licenses. Although now that I think about it, it could also discourage custom, more suitable implementations for each use-case... I'm torn on this one. I would like to see it available on GitHub too just out of curiosity too. It's very beautiful.

2) For a team + customers' chat, I cannot recommend Zulip enough. It's a joy to use and has the most innovative chat system I've ever seen. https://zulip.com

I hope your business keeps prospering!

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At Zulip, we’re out to build the world’s best collaboration platform, and we’re committed to keeping it 100% open source. Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Our product serves as the communication hub for businesses, open-source projects, educators and communities around the world.

We're building the next generation of Zulip's mobile apps in Flutter. We're looking for a senior engineer with Flutter experience to join our small core team and help define the future of team chat. Our Flutter prototype is just a few months old, so this is a greenfield opportunity to help shape the app's architecture from early on.

For full details, check out https://zulip.com/jobs/. Apply at [email protected].

The terraform test command and the options of mocking resources and data sources enable a lot more than we have tried out here in this blog post. I highly recommend to take a closer look at the documentation and the blog post referenced before and play around with them. Be aware that this is a quite "young" functionality, so maybe you stumble over issues or might miss some features. If this is the case you definitely should open an issue in the corresponding repository.

I decided to use Terraform to manage my K8 resources. I know that there are probably better ways of doing this (like Argo CD or Flux CD), but I ended up settling with Terraform as I was already familiar with the tool and it allowed me to achieve the goal of trying out K8s without being bogged down too much on the deployment process.

It uses HashiCorp Terraform to provision the PKI and secrets so that they can be quickly and easily rotated.

I used the aws console at first to get reacquainted with dynamodb, lambda and apigateway. After getting everything to work, I used Terraform to deploy all of the infrastructure pieces. The Github repo can be found here.

Rather than point and click in the AWS console, I decided to start with IaC using Terraform. I also decided to use GitHub actions(https://docs.github.com/en/actions) for CI/CD to get familiar with them. I had only used GitLab CI/CD and runners previously, which are very similar to GitHub Actions.

To implement this, we need to create a pair of EC2 instances along with their corresponding resources, such as roles and security groups, in our AWS account. Doing this manually for every EC2 instance type we need to measure could be tedious, so we'll use Terraform for this task.

Dan: The entire deployment workflow for Kubernetes revolves around Argo CD. When I set up a cluster, some might default to using kubectl apply, or if they're using Terraform, they might opt for the Helm provider to install various Helm charts. However, with Argo CD, I have precise control over deployment processes.

Terraform/OpenTofu installed. We use Terraform in this article.

First and foremost, I embarked on replicating the existing infrastructure on Digital Ocean using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, specifically leveraging tools like Terraform to automate the setup process.