Working in News Tech: MH17, an impressive day to remember

Looking back 10 years ago at MH17, from a personal and news tech perspective…

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How a LEGO restroom sign beats every enterprise software out there

What and how can software design learn from good product design around us? A story as much as an encouragement.…

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Terraform and Ansible were already Terrible in 2016

IBM now has Terraform plus Ansible which is Terrible. Actually a great combination, that is why somewhere an in-house ‘Terrible’ was created many years ago.…

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12 Factor applications: 13 years later

The 12 factor methodology is about 13 years old. How did it age in the cloud-native era? Do we need a 13th factor?…

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Why Kubernetes? Focus on the API, not the servers

Discussing the value and cost of Kubernetes in the light of various tech topics of 2023…

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Shifting left using feature deployments

Deploying features before merging into main. Should you? And if so, how would you?…

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PodDisruptionBudget confused: Labels matter.

PodDisruptionBudget and incomplete labels is not a great combination. How to prevent this situation and how to fix it.…

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Kubernetes Community Days 2023 Amsterdam

Recap of the Kubernetes Community Days 2023 Amsterdam event…

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Hackathon: Could we run NU.nl on LeafCloud sustainable hosting?

Hackathon time! The theme being ‘climate’: What would it take to run NU.nl on LeafCloud, a more environmental-friendly cloud than AWS? Let’s find out.…

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The mysterious case of the missing ECR image

Investigating why very occasionally we got bitten by our ECR lifecycle policy…

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