I discuss Stateless and Stateful, CI/CD, snowflake servers issue, logic of using Flux with Helm, custom Flux resources, checklist for GitOps, SSOT, and more.

Visually explore different methods of retrying requests to learn why some methods are dangerous and what the best practice is.

Over the past years, we have seen a shift in processors from the previously dominant x86 architecture to the more energy-efficient (and often cheaper) ARM architecture. This trend is true for both consumer hardware, e.g., Apple’s M1 SoC and also server hardware, e.g. AWS’s Gravitron processor. Given that the ARM architecture has a more relaxed…

For my recent One Day Build: Expense Tracking project I wanted to enable notifications in a progressive web app. ChatGPT struggled to generate any good code for me, and I also struggled to find any minimal clear explanations online.

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I discuss a multiple environments problem in GitOps as well as compare CI Ops vs GitOps. I analyze a rollback procedure, multiple clusters problem, and security

By Hieu Nguyen - October 3, 2023 In November 2021, Render introduced a free tier for hobbyist... Tagged with kubernetes, knative.

DoorDash wrote a great blog post delving into how they implemented caching for their microservices. Plus, why clever code is the worst code you can write and more.