I keep spending some of my free time playing around with Slack and specifically Slack bots. More to come on future posts but for now I can tell that I am amazed by the quality of the Slack Java SDK called Bolt. In this post I want to share a very simple Gitlab-CI pipeline that I use for building and deploying my toy …

For many years now I have been using artifactlistener to get updates on my mailbox on new releases or libraries and project that I use at work or on personal projects. It is a very decent service, and I still use it. These were times that things like dependabot were still not a thing :) + I was mostly interested on the …

I have been working on a small personal project during these days (a silly slack bot). Usually I try to mix and match technologies that I am using at work, with stuff that I really enjoy, and I have a very strong opinion. So I get to improve on stuff that I don't necessarily enjoy using day to day :P with stuff that I …

As a mac user and active developer I use a lot of package managers, update managers etc. Most of the people would be familiar with things like: homebrew sdkman (for JVM developers) If you happen to be like me and use Terraform, then I have only nice things to say about tfenv. Not sure if you have ever struggled to …

it's been some weeks now that our migration to Amazon EKS at work) is completed and the clusters are in production. I have written a brief in the past on some major points, you can find it here. With some extra confidence while the system is serving real traffic I decided to come back for a more concrete and thorough …

Context I have been working in a team where we use kubernetes in production for 2 years now. I have configured and used Kubernetes clusters from version 1.4.x with tools like kube-aws to 1.6-1.7 configured with kops. Amazon's EKS is the third breed of kubernetes provisioning solutions that I have the chance to try and …

In the past 2,5 years while working for Ticketmaster in London, I had the chance to use extensively (still do) Fastly, one of the best CDN and Edge Compute services out there. Fastly is not just a web cache but a wholistic Edge service offering. It enables integrators (users) to actually bring their application (web …

I have been working with Kubernetes in production for 2 years now. Over this time we have migrated 3 or 4 times clusters, changed techniques and tools of deployments, changed habit's or pushed back to some of the hype and trends coming up every day on the kubernetes scene. I guess nothing new here, this is what almost …

Disclaimer - don't shoot the pianist it's been some time since I wanted to write this post. For those that are going to read it, I need to say that a) I hate the term DevOPs as a way to label engineers b) I'm a software developer, so I am the type of guy who really enjoys high-level languages like Java/ Kotlin etc and …

The other day, I was chatting with my friend Stathis about command line tools that I use every day, extra to kubectl, operating on different kube clusters in production. Command line tools ** kubetail** Allows you to tail logs from one or more pods simultaneously. It is really handy since you only have to specify the …