I’ve started thinking about this largely after reading this piece. Of course, the title is clickbait as the obvious TLDR has nothing to do with Kubernetes but with TCO. It’s also my experience that in AWS, running Kubernetes with EKS isn’t just an exercise in frustration but also results in…

After reading this bit I got into a state of disbelief at the fact that people tied to the software industry still get the idea of estimation wrong. It’s clear from the start that the author doesn’t know the goal of estimation. Actually, estimation generally answers 2 questions: when will…

A little bit of a background. I’ve been a Kubernetes user since early 2015 and have been using AWS since 2013 (on and off, with stints across all major cloud players like GCP, Azure, DO, AliBaba — no Oracle yet though). I’ve done “Kubernetes the hard way” and loved it. …

This situation is too serious to lie about it If there’s one thing I learned in the past 20 years, is that computer games have become too realistic. Whether it’s Ukraine claiming to have downed a Su-35 or Russia praising their tank divisions, there’s a game with scenes realistic enough…

Initially published on Dev.To Before we get down to the subject, I need to clarify that my take on “devops” is not one of DevOps engineers or DevOps as a role, but the “original” meaning of DevOps when it was coined: a practice that brings together ops and development for…

And yet they're not mistakes. Not in the sense that you're making them to be anyway. 1. The user is an idiot it's a correct way to describe the development attitude but the attitude in itself is not a mistake unless it results in a flat out refusal to do…

There’s no way around it. I always knew that in the back of my mind. Every leftist idea challenges a bit of status quo, the current state. Changing is always scary. But how scary? I found two videos online. This and that. While the second is scary in a way…

I have a problem with OOP. There, I’ve said it. It’s probably some residual anger stemming from university days where it’s been taught as the de-facto truth and God to worship (via Java). I also dislike Java, though in the case of Java it’s exactly this reason (and a bit…

This piece is about two related subjects. The first is the great question of whether we should rely on auto incremented integers or uuids to identify entities. The second is who gets to generate those identifiers (your code or some external application like your RDBMS). I feel that just about…