Ask In The Channel Private Messages Considered Harmful
Anti-patterns in instant messaging, and why teams need to get more comfortable about being vulnerable.
Zero to CKA in 2 Weeks Some thoughts on the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam and how I managed to pass it in 2 weeks with no prior knowledge of Kubernetes.
Prior to the 2 weeks leading up to my CKA exam, I had no Kubernetes knowledge to speak of. I didn’t know what a Kubelet was, how to create a Pod, nor did I know what the Control Plane did....
Cypress, isn’t that a popular holiday location?
Overview Cyprus is a nice sunny island and is the third most popular of the Mediterranean islands. However, as I can’t go to Cyprus right now due to COVID-19, I have had to settle for something that sounds similar instead,...
Using AWS CloudFront as a CDN for an S3 Static Site Implementing a CDN in order to effectively deliver static content in close proximity to readers
In my last post Using AWS S3 and Hugo to Create and Host a Static Website we looked at creating a static site in AWS S3 using Hugo. As previously mentioned, there are some slight disadvantages with hosting a static...
Quarkus meets Liquibase Quarkus application with Liquibase data management
Migrating an application to a new framework is mostly painful and challenging. We started to migrate our existing Jakarta EE applications which have been using Liquibase to manage the database changes. Quarkus has native support for Flyway which is another...
Ten Steps towards Cloud Native
Here in the Open Source Cloud Engineering (OSCE) division of Capgemini Custom Software Development, cloud native development is what we do. What we struggle with is explaining to people exactly what that is. Cloud native is a buzzword which is...
Using AWS S3 and Hugo to Create and Host a Static Website A fast, simple and hassle-free way of creating and hosting a static website
As a software engineer and consultant, I have been responsible for designing, developing and deploying custom websites and systems for a range of private and public sector companies and agencies. With most of my time being spent on other people’s...
Promoting on Success: A Safe and Reliable Strategy of Promoting Serverless Applications A strategy of promoting serverless applications from Development up to Production
Traditionally, there have been many ways of releasing applications. This relates to both the different test environments and the production environment itself. However, with serverless applications, traditional strategies may not transfer so well due to the characteristics of those architectures....
Introduction to Serverless Computing on AWS A first dive into Serverless Computing on AWS
Back in November 2014, AWS completely changed the paradigm of modern Cloud computing by releasing a service called AWS Lambda. Consequently, this changed the future product road map offerings for a lot of technology companies around the world that have...
Rematch: Redux Without the Bloat
State management. Whilst being a critical aspect of writing frontend applications, it’s an ever-changing landscape. You might be reading this and thinking what even is state, and why do I need it? Fundamentally, at a high level, state management is...