Mar 13, 2021Cat-as-a-thing in IoT: tracking cat walks with LoRa, BroWAN sensor and TheThingsNetworkRaised in a busy city, I always wanted to live in a quiet village - but with all city facilities nearby. When I bought my house in a lovely place called Duivendrecht (which is closer to Amsterdam centre than half of Amsterdam own districts), it was like a dream location…Cats9 min read
Feb 15, 2021Real-world Helm practices for perfect continuous delivery to KubernetesExploring Helm capabilities to go far beyond ‘kubectl apply’: non-redundant multi-environment configurations, convenient secret management and reliable continuous delivery pipelines. Kubernetes has brought us the concept of descriptor-based software configuration management. …Helm10 min read
Feb 15, 2021Observability of a reactive system: Introducing Akka SensorsRunnables Any reactive system, by definition, wants to be responsive, resilient and elastic, and therefore can’t be anything but message-driven. Any action within such system is an asynchronous message that needs to be processed. …Akka6 min read
