Amjith Ramanujam

218 points

San Jose

Amjith Ramanujam is a senior software engineer at Netflix. His team is responsible for keeping Netflix services running in the face of extreme adversity. In other words, his team is in charge of doing regional failover.

In his spare time he writes modern CLI tools. He is the creator of pgcli and mycli.

You should say hi to him on twitter.

Open Minded Readers Choice Award 2018 Author

Authored Content

Opensource.com CFP and September preview

How Netflix does failovers in 7 minutes flat

Netflix decreased the time it takes to respond to an outage from 45 minutes to seven with no additional cost.

An introduction to mssql-cli, a command-line client for SQL Server

Mssql-cli is a solid, modern, and user-friendly command-line tool released under an open source license.

Getting started with 4 practical Python libraries: Prompt Toolkit, Click, Pygments, and Fuzzy Finder

4 Python libraries for building great command-line user interfaces

In the second installment of a two-part series on terminal applications with great command-line UIs, we explore Prompt Toolkit, Click, Pygments, and Fuzzy Finder.

4 terminal applications with great command-line UIs

We look at a few well-designed CLI programs and how they overcome some discoverability problems.

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amjith

29 May 2017

4 terminal applications with great command-line UIs

Part 2:

https://opensource.com/article/17/5/4-practical-python-libraries

amjith

18 May 2017

4 terminal applications with great command-line UIs

You're right. It is possible to achieve the same results as fish by tweaking the config or installing a plugin for zsh. Which is fine, but the point I'm trying to make is in order to make those features readily accessible they should be shipped as default not enabled via a config file or through some extension.