Kubernetes ReadinessProbe should be mandatory

For my current customer i'm in the process of migrating their application from Google App Engine Flexible (former Managed VMs) toward Kubernetes running on GKE. During extensive tests I concluded that although pod readinessProbes are optional, they should in fact be mandatory when having a Service connected. What is a…

Speaking at NDC Oslo 2015

This year I got the change to give a talk at the NDC Oslo 2015 about using StatsD to measure your application's performance. Giving a really long talk to a big crowd of non-native dutch attendee's was quite the feat! I had a load of fun and learned a ton.…

Azure Webjobs to the rescue

I gave a talk at Q42 about the power that Azure Webjobs give you for running async tasks, long running or scheduled. The slides are meant to give a fast walkthrough of the featureset and some pitfalls. What are webjobs? Webjobs are part of the Azure Cloud solution of microsoft.…