https://erik.dev/ Recent content on Erik St. Martin Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us erik@erik.dev (Erik St. Martin) erik@erik.dev (Erik St. Martin) Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:00:00 -0400 https://erik.dev/live-streams/embedded-rust/ Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:00:00 -0400 erik@erik.dev (Erik St. Martin) https://erik.dev/live-streams/embedded-rust/ I’ve been a hobbyist with electronics for a number of years. Working on a project, then nothing for months (sometimes years). Then picking it back up. I’ve always wanted to gain more experience doing embedded development. Recently i’ve been working on a project in Rust called Krustlet that allows Kubernetes to be used to orchestrate Web Assembly directly on the a node, without being put inside a container. Brian Ketelsen and I worked on a talk and demo for it where we used WASM to control a robotic arm. https://erik.dev/live-streams/intelligent-video/ Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:00:00 -0400 erik@erik.dev (Erik St. Martin) https://erik.dev/live-streams/intelligent-video/ Over the past several weeks Paul DeCarlo and I have been working on a video series and example project with documentation on the Intelligent Edge. Where we worked on an Intelligent Video Analytics system using a $99 NVIDIA Jetson Nano. The project takes RSTP video feeds from a couple of local security cameras and then uses NVIDIA’s DeepStream SDK and Azure’s IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, Time Series Insights, and PowerBI to do object detection at the edge on the Nano, collect metrics about the objects scene by the individual cameras, forwards them up to Azure, then presents a dashboard for viewing and querying the analytics we’ve collected. https://erik.dev/minecraft/ Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:00:00 -0400 erik@erik.dev (Erik St. Martin) https://erik.dev/minecraft/ My kids are home from school and they have expressed interest in learning to program. So i’ve decided to try to introduce them to that world, in a hopefully much more entertaining way than starting with theory. It turns out the Bedrock edition of Microsoft can be modded using JSON and Javascript. This is a great way of easing into programming. There was so much we could do and quickly by just modifying JSON files. https://erik.dev/post/programming-minecraft/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:40:00 -0400 erik@erik.dev (Erik St. Martin) https://erik.dev/post/programming-minecraft/ This week i’m going to kick off a new video series aimed at introducing children, teenagers, and potentially adults to the world of programming. Rather than producing episodes, I’ll be live streaming the sessions so that viewers can interact and ask questions. The sessions will evolve organically based on questions that are asked. Once we get through the introductory material, the series will evolve into the creation of an addon, and potentially evolve into mods for other games and game development using Unity or the Unreal engine. https://erik.dev/post/virtual-kubelet/ Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:30:50 -0600 erik@erik.dev (Erik St. Martin) https://erik.dev/post/virtual-kubelet/ Last week was KubeCon. 4,100 Kubernauts descended on Austin, Texas to talk about all things Kubernetes and Cloud Native. During this spectacular event, Microsoft announced a new open-source project called Virtual Kubelet that a number of my colleagues (credited below) and I got together a week early in Austin to hack on. I’m super excited about this project, and I’d like to explain a bit about what it is and why it’s so interesting. https://erik.dev/about/ Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:25:04 -0400 erik@erik.dev (Erik St. Martin) https://erik.dev/about/ I’ve been a Web Developer, Software Engineer, Systems Architect for the past 15+ years. I have a deep passion for all things technology, these days I’m currently in love with all things Go, Kubernetes, Containers, Distributed Systems and Information Security. I occasionally like to imagine I know something about hardware and embedded systems. Interesting facts about me: I co-authored Go in Action, a book about the Go programming language that has been translated to 3 additional languages. https://erik.dev/speaking/ Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:25:04 -0400 erik@erik.dev (Erik St. Martin) https://erik.dev/speaking/ Podcasts Regular appearances Go Time - A weekly podcast where we discuss the Go programming language and community. Guest appearances 6 Figure Developer - Talking about the Go programming language. IT Career Energizer - Discussing breaking into the technology feild. Arrested DevOps - A panel of all the speakers from GOTO Chicago 2018’s distributed systems track discuss distributed systems. Software Engineering Daily - I join the show to discuss the Go programming language, and Kubernetes. https://erik.dev/post/why-i-joined-microsoft/ Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:25:04 -0400 erik@erik.dev (Erik St. Martin) https://erik.dev/post/why-i-joined-microsoft/ With all the hype about Microsoft’s hiring streak on the developer advocacy team, it has left a lot of people asking: “What is Microsoft doing?”. Many of my new coworkers have shared their views; I thought I’d share my own. Even some of my own friends and family have asked why I would make this move. I’d been working on a great team, working on really interesting and challenging problems. All seemed to be well in the world; what would trigger such a move?