Kustomize for Kubernetes is cool! It provides a structured approach to generating Kubernetes resource manifests instead of relying on text-based templating. This eliminates a whole class of bugs: syntax errors coming from generated templates. It’s al...
Every now and then, popular Git hosting services such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket have outages. Since many organisations, both private and public, rely on these services, a single outage can cause a worldwide drop in productivity and a familiar ...
In my work, I often meet teams that are not confident with their health checks endpoints. Usually, there’s no health checking implemented at all or there is just enough to pay lip service to the idea. This, of course, makes total sense because there ...
The Deployment resource is the de-facto way to handle application deployments in Kubernetes, but there are many tools to manage them. One way to manage them safely is to use kubectl directly as demonstrated in my previous article. Another popular way...
When writing and setting up software, it’s natural for us to focus on just the happy path. After all, that’s the path that everyone wants. Unfortunately, software can fail quite often, so we need to give the unhappy paths some attention as well. Kube...
In Clojure, data structures are mostly built from a handful of core data structures such as lists, vectors, maps, and sets. This means that most data structures can leverage all of the generic data transformations and querying functions built for the...
