Getting Honeycomb working with my AWS Lambda functions

I have several existing Lambda functions which are all built on Node.js which I wanted to connect to Honeycomb. I spent some time over the weekend working through it, and this is my stream-of-consciousness.

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The anatomy of a quick bash script (bulk rename Kinesis Firehose files in S3)

Also known as: how to move hundreds of files in S3 that you accidentally put in the wrong place because you misconfigured a Kinesis Firehose.

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InfluxDB Kapacitor subscription errors

Post http://kapacitor.default:9092/write?consistency=&db=telegraf&precision=ns&rp=autogen: dial tcp: lookup kapacitor.default on 100.1.1.1:53: no such host service=subscriber

If you’re seeing something like this error in your InfluxDB logs, and don’t know what it means: Kapacitor has created one or more subscriptions in your InfluxDB database, and InfluxDB is trying to POST to the Kapacitor endpoint; however, Kapacitor is unreachable. Kapacitor might be unreachable because it’s down, or you have a network partition or other connectivity issue, or in my case you’ve actually just destroyed your Kapacitor instance.

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Docker container out of disk space

Are programs in your Docker container complaining of no free space?
Does your host have loads of space?
And your container does too?

It could be inode exhaustion!

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Sinopia: a private NPM registry

Not all of our packages can be pushed to the public NPM repository. Proprietary code and uninteresting code we want to keep internal, but until recently the package distribution story for this code has been worse than open-sourcing it. You either modularise it and publish to the world, or you have a bad time.

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