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October 29, 2020

10 most common mistakes using terraform

We had the chance to see quite a bit of infrastructures in our years of experience with AWS, GCP and Azure and we see some mistakes being repeated. No shame in that, we’ve done most of these too!

I’ll try to show the ones we see very often and talk a bit about how to fix them.

BTW we did a blogpost about “10 most common mistakes using kubernetes”

How would I proceed with Kubernetes deployments?

How would I proceed with Kubernetes deployments?

July 17, 2020

Last time I’ve written a few words about the orchestration of Helm deployments. I’ve mentioned there that I’m not so big fan of Helm in terms of deployment of applications. That’s 100% true, but do I have any other alternatives?

Applications are not easy, tracing is: context propagation

Applications are not easy, tracing is: context propagation

February 17, 2020

A few weeks ago I’ve published my introduction to the tracing with OpenTelemetry instrumentation. I was trying to explain there that tracing has some value even in standalone applications. It was just a recommendation, but today we’re gonna talk about scenarios where tracing is a must: distributed systems.

Applications are not easy, tracing is: a brief introduction to OpenTelemetry

Applications are not easy, tracing is: a brief introduction to OpenTelemetry

February 9, 2020

I have great news! OpenTelemetry will be in beta soon! What does it mean? Well, we can start instrumenting applications directly with OpenTelemetry and we can skip its ancestors.