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 …

Αναρωτιέμαι πολλές φορές αν ο κόσμος συνεχίζει να διαβάζει blog. Καταραμένη Google όταν μας έκοψες το Google Reader χάλασες όλη τη φάση. Νιώθω ενοχές που δε γράφω τόσο συχνά. Το έχω γράψει και παλιά, όλα αυτά τα χρόνια έχουν περάσει πολλά post από το μυαλό μου και συνεχίζω να μην τα γράφω. Ελπίζω οτι το 2020 θα είμαι …

Historically I started as a PC user back in the days, Windows user specifically. I can still remember my self assembling PCs, reading magazines being an expert on motherboard trends, CPUs, heat sinks and all these stuff. I can also remember my self configuring all flavours of Windows .and almost 14 years ago I quit. I …

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 …

I decided to up my command line game. I do acknowledge that there are tons of different ways on doing things, especially when you have to deal with the command line. So don't shoot the pianist. Step 0: I do use brew Use brew to manage a lot of command line tools ,gui apps. You can find it here. I also occasionally use, …

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 …

Δεν είναι λίγες οι φορές, που πιάνουμε τη συζήτηση με φίλους και γνωστούς εδώ στα ξένα, για υποθετικά σενάρια επιστροφής στην Ελλάδα. Ιδιαίτερα αν η παρέα σας ή ο κύκλος σας έχει να κάνει με την πληροφορική, τέτοιες συζητήσεις μπορεί να είναι αρκετά συχνές μιας και ανήκουμε σε μια αγορά που δίνει ευκαιρίες παντού, γι_ …

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 …