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, …

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 …

Well Santa came early for me back at Ticketmaster INTL. When I joined I kind of made a mistake and swapped my original 15 MacBookPro for a smaller one 13inch/iCore5, because I did not want to carry stuff around (even though I don't commute a lot to he honest). Eventually after a year, I am thankful, to receive a …