Tagging in Gitlab CI Pipeline using Deploy Keys
When building your application in a Gitlab pipeline you often want to push back changes to your repository. You can use deploy keys to accomplish this. Read on to learn how to use these.…
Git surgery to retain history
Using git surgery to graft together two repositories to retain their history? Let's go!…
My thoughts on AWS CodeArtifact
I have taken some time to play around with AWS CodeArtifact (https://aws.amazon.com/codeartifact/) as Intermediate/private npm package registry. It ties into the AWS ecosystem very well and provides a transparent proxy for packages of npmjs.org to your application. You can keep using your regular tooling…
Thoughts on using a Chromebook as primary machine
I have always been intrigued of the chromebook solution. Zero maintenance to the operating system and very decent hardware at an affordable pricepoint. But my concern always was "will this also work as a primary personal laptop?" Every time I reviewed the Chromebook option the answer was Not…
Recap of Lead Developer conference London
Past week I finally attended the Lead Developer Conference in London and what a conference it has been. Everything was provided: from quality talks, good and healthy nourishments to even provide childcare for those requiring so. There were a lot of sessions about the soft skills involved with being a…
Upgrading Kubernetes Nodes without disruptions
Upgrading your kubernetes cluster is a process not to be taken lightly. In this article we will shine a light on a recent outage we experienced while doing so and what we have learned from this.…
Battle of the blogs: Where to go next
It took me quite some time to decide which platform to start using for my blog. In this article I discuss the options I weighted and why I chose Ghost as my blogging platform.…
W00tcamp 2018 - Augmenting the sliding experience
Interested how we augmented the slide at my office with a LED & sound effect? Read more about the adventure in this blog.…
Kubernetes workshop at EV-Box
EVBox is a producers of electric vehicle charging stations and has these come bundled with a managed software solution. Given the fact that the Philips Hue cloud is somewhat alike (hardware + cloud offering) they reached out to us to share our knowledge during a workshop.…
Team Philips Hue goes on coderetreat
The Philips Hue team took a day long coderetreat in which they went through multiple iterations of Conways game of life…