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What software and hardware I use
There was a discussion in Koodiklinikka Slack about what software people use and that people have made “/uses” pages for that purpose. And inspired by Wes Bos /uses from “Syntax” Podcast here’s my list. Check my /uses page to see what software and hardware I use for full-stack development in JavaScript, Node.js,… Jatka lukemista →
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Monthly Notes 52
Issue 52, 9.9.2020 Software development Field Ops Guide“The Field Ops Guide (by Futurice) is a booklet that makes it possible to survive a software development project. It’s a distillation of years of wisdom gathered working in client projects.” Kubernetes Threat matrix for Kubernetes“While Kubernetes has many advantages, it also brings new security challenges that should…
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Notes from HelSec Virtual Meetup 1
This year has been challenging for meetups and gatherings but one good side of the restrictions was that remote work has become more acceptable and also meetups and conferences have invested to streaming and virtual participation which is great for people living in an area where there’s no meetups. In early May HelSec kept their…
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Monthly notes 51
It’s August and after summer holidays it’s time to get back to monthly notes. If you read only one note, check the “Some important things to keep in mind when you work remotely” which has good tips also in general. Happy reading :) Issue 51: 2020-08-07 Kubernetes How to gracefully shut down Pods without dropping…
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Hands-on learning Cloud Technologies with QwikLabs
I’ve used Google Cloud Platform for some time and got a opportunity to attend Codemen Cloud Academy’s Google Workshop which concentrated to “Kubernetes in the Google Cloud” and “Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop” topics using the Qwiklabs is a platform. Here’s my (very) short notes from the workshop and using Qwiklabs.… Jatka lukemista →
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Monthly notes 50
Issue 50, 15.6.2020 Serverless AWS Lambda — should you have few monolithic functions or many single-purposed functions?Interesting question of if single responsibility principle (SRP) should be followed in the serverless world. What is a “function” if not SRP? TL;DR; many single-purposed functions are better. Stories Twitter search of “telling early-in-career engineers stories of times you…
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Generating JWT and JWK for information exchange between services
Securely transmitting information between services and authorization can be achieved with using JSON Web Tokens. JWTs are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties. Here’s a short explanation and guide of what they are, their use and how to generate the needed things. “JSON Web Token (JWT) is…
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Notes from DEVOPS 2020 Online conference
DevOps 2020 Online was held 21.4. and 22.4.2020 and the first day talked about Cloud & Transformation and the second was 5G DevOps Seminar. Here are some quick notes from the talks I found the most interesting. The talk recordings are available from the conference site. DevOps 2020 How to improve your DevOps capability in…
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Monthly notes 49
Working From Home edition. Issue 49, 27.3.2020 Conferences Now that COVID-19 has all of us in corontine and working from home, also the technology conferences have been moved to online and free. Here’s some. WFHConfWorking From Home Conf with talks from technology to projects, best practices, lessons learned and about working from home.… Jatka lukemista…
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Using NGINX Ingress Controller on Google Kubernetes Engine
If you’ve used Kubernetes you might have come across Ingress which manages external access to services in a cluster, typically HTTP. When running with GKE the “default” is GLBC which is a “load balancer controller that manages external loadbalancers configured through the Kubernetes Ingress API”. It’s easy to use but doesn’t let you to to…