Director, Developer, Technology Enthusiast: Alfred Nutile

Alfred Nutile

Software Engineer

I have been in the industry for 20+ years. My roots are in coding and a passion for technology. For the past several years I have been building and leading a team to create technologies to assist in the digital transformation at my current role.

Projects

Machine Learning PHP Client and Laravel
Machine Learning PHP Client and Laravel
Creator July 2016

Example Machine Learning Laravel Client for AWS ML

Details
Feature Flags and Laravel
Feature Flags and Laravel
Co-Creator Jun 2016 - Present

An Open Source Feature Flag Library for Laravel.

Details
Feature Flags and Laravel Code
Feature Flags and Laravel Code
Co-Creator Jun 2016 - Present

An Open Source Feature Flag Library for Laravel.

Star
Director of Cloud Engineering @ Pfizer
Director of Cloud Engineering @ Pfizer
Director Jun 2013 - Present

Helping to guide Pfizer in its Digital Transformation

Details
Suggestions Around Building a Good Development Team
Suggestions Around Building a Good Development Team
Writer Nov 2017

Suggestions Around Building a Good Development Team in Parallel to Building a Good Product

Details
Continuous Delivery in a NutShell
Continuous Delivery in a NutShell
Writer Nov 2017

TL;DR for Continuous Delivery

Details

Recent Posts

Card image cap
Mocking, Python, Pytest

Ok this is going to be a collection of notes to self. This post does a good job of summing up some mock patterns with PyTest. I then had to mock the Snyk client which depended on the Requests library. I chose not to mock the requests library but the methods in the snyk library. The thing was the method I mocked returned the “Response” object and I wanted to use the json() feature of that object/class to return the results.

March 4, 2021 Read
Card image cap
Windows Dev Box Try 3 2020

Yes this is try number 3. See here for the first 2 goes at it. With WSL2 out and a great laptop I wanted to give this another try. MariaDB Even though the install is super simple see https://alfrednutile.info/posts/267 I still end up having to do: $ sudo mysql -u root # I had to use "sudo" since is new installation mysql> USE mysql; mysql> UPDATE user SET plugin='mysql_native_password' WHERE User='root'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> exit; $ service mysql restart To allow me to then use this command, for example maraidb -uroot -proot otherwise I have “Error connecting on localhost” type errors.

May 25, 2020 Read
Card image cap
Using Python Lambda behind and ALB

Just a quick note to self about ALB and Lambda. When using Lambda behind and ALB for routing your response has to be formatted properly else you will get a 502. https://pypi.org/project/alb-response/ solved this problem. from alb_response import alb_response def lambda_handler(event, context): response_dict = process_the_event(event) return alb_response( http_status=200, json=response_dict, is_base64_encoded=False, ) The results are easy enough to do by hand but I had a bit of time really finding out the format to respond with other than JavaScript and that casing there was a bit confusing.

February 6, 2020 Read

Achievements

Author Laravel Cookbook

Developers Hangout Podcast

OpenSource Libraries - Friends of Cat

YouTube Videos