The 3 types of Product Managers Working as a Cloud Native Consultant taught me so many things, ow boy, soooo many things. But surprisingly, most of these things weren't actually technical as one may expect. Sure, I did learn a lot about Kubernetes itself and all aspects of building good architecture in the cloud. But I'd
60ms ping from CH to US? A few days ago I was doing a little bit of a research into our new potential client. Something got me confused for a second. The client is based in Switzerland and they only serve Swiss market, therefore seeing this was a surprise: DNS servers in United States for a
Monitoring vs Observability Observability became mainstream just a few years ago but it's been everywhere since then so one would think that it's clear by now how does it differ from monitoring. Turns out it's not, at least not to all. As a consultant I'm being asked that question still to this day.
Layer 1 and 2 only communication This one is for those of you who (like me) are interested in electronics as well. And by electronics I mainly mean SBCs and microcontrollers (Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP32, etc). Lately people are talking everywhere about ESP-NOW and there is something interesting about it and a little bit of misinformation
kubernetes How to Make the Most of Kubernetes Environment Variables In traditional systems, environment variables play an important role but not always a crucial one. Some applications make more use of environment variables than others. Some prefer configuration files over environment variables. However, when it comes to Kubernetes, environment variables are a little bit more important than you may think.
Getting Started Who Am I? Hi! Welcome to my IT-related portfolio page/blog. In this post, you can learn all you may need to know about me.
kubernetes Kafka-aware (L7) security for Kubernetes When it comes to Kafka, fine-grained security is very important. Usually, data flowing through Kafka comes from lots of components and often consist of information that shouldn’t be consumed by anyone unprivileged. With the help of Cilium [https://cilium.io/] we can enforce Kafka-aware security policies directly on the
kubernetes About Azure AKS Default Node Pool If you ever used Azure Managed Kubernetes service (AKS) you probably needed to change or delete the default node pool at least once. Default node pool is the one that is being created at the time of cluster creation, so essentially — the first node pool in the cluster. If you
terraform IaC Security: What It Is and How It Works When it comes to writing secure code, we mainly think about application security. Developers writing the code of an application need to follow security best practices and use application security scanning tools. However, the application code isn't the only code that you should secure. Infrastructure teams also write code. In
python How to build an API without coding I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life as a System Engineer, which means when I first had to build an API, I had no idea how to do it. I knew python quite a bit since as a SysAdmin I often had to write some smaller or
cloud Hybrid Cloud Security: A Leader's Essential Guide The hybrid cloud is a very popular cloud deployment model nowadays. This is mainly because when a big company is moving to the cloud, it's not a simple process. You need months, and sometimes a few years, to move all your resources to the cloud. During that transition period, you'll
