What are the basic tasks a Linux Sysadmin should do on her homelab?
One of the things I want to work on is my Linux Sysadmin skills. Linux supports much of cloud native ecosystem, namely Kubernetes. It is helpful to have a ce...
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Are all applications with a database stateful?
For some time this got me confused. There is much to be said about the advantages of stateless applications. Availability and resilience are much easier to a...
30-Day Series - Databases
In the context of computing, a database is an organized collection of data that can be easily accessed, managed, and updated. Databases are used to hold info...
What is AWS Control Tower?
The official website introduces AWS Control Tower in the following way: AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-accou...
What is Red Hat OpenShift?
OpenShift is a Red Hat product that builds a façade on top of Kubernetes. It takes an opinionated approach to Kubernetes with the goal of reducing the time t...
A step-by-step ArgoCD demo for beginners (PART 2)
This is the continuation of part 1 of this series.
Should I sit the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Exam?
I am currently thinking about whether it would be interesting to sit this exam. DevOps is a topic dear to me. As for AWS, it’s a provider I am quite familiar...
A step-by-step ArgoCD demo for beginners (PART 1)
ArgoCD is a declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool built to deploy applications to Kubernetes. The goal of this demo is to install ArgoCD in a Kubernete...
What are Non-Functional Requirements? A brief explanation
I like to think of Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) as system-wide requirements. Since they are not attached to a specific behaviour or function (that’s whe...
How I backup my personal files
A topic I struggled with for many years was how to back up my personal files. This took place before knowing about the wonders of version control. In those d...
What is the difference between API Gateway and Load Balancer?
In the previous post, I clarified the difference between an API Gateway and a Service Mesh. However, another common question is the difference between an API...
What is the difference between API Gateway and Service Mesh?
Both terms are common in the development of Cloud Native applications. They both deal with inter-application communication but they are not the same.