It is almost a month now that I wanted to write this short review, for Container Security by Liz Rice, one of the most concise tech books I have read recently. Target audience Advice for DevOps friendly software engineers (like me), if you are into docker and containers I would add this book to my must-read list on the …

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 you can imagine this post is all about flying, well simulator kind of flying. I have decided to kill some time on DCS World during this pandemic. I have been trying to improve as a pilot and fighter in general but obviously I was not taking it very seriously. The thing with a simulator like DCS is that you need to …

I remember the old days when I used to collect HD wallpapers. Spending hours and hours on different sites (do you remember devianart) , trying to find stuff that I like and making sure this wallpapers folder was always backed-up. I had multiple copies of it on CDs and then DVDs and then somewhere online. It is kind of …

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 …

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, …