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The abstraction trade-off

08 Jan 2025

Software tooling is rapidly improving, new languages and frameworks releasing every day. In a nutshell what they do is reduce complexity we face while programming, in other words they provide abstractions for communicating with our computer components.

Running dockerized services via systemctl

10 Sep 2024

I love running stuff in Docker, and one of the first things I always do on a freshly installed Linux machine is I run a Postgres database and pgAdmin in Docker and configure it to boot on startup. With a new laptop and after doing some Docker preaching at my new workplace, I figured I might as well write about it. 😀

Why we left the cloud

20 Aug 2024

A summary of my talk given at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024.

Bare Metal Part 1: Why Kubernetes beat Docker Swarm in our setup!

06 Dec 2023

An introduction to the new CI/CD pipeline and the start of migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes.