IoT
Travelling with a prototype
How to present an IoT prototype in a foreign conference? As you probably noticed already, I had the honour of making a presentation during the
February 6, 2019 1 Comment
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Open Policy Agent
Open Policy Agent (OPA)
What can you do with Open Policy Agent (OPA)? Last year, me and a colleague, attended KubeCon/CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen. During those day on the conference
January 27, 2019 No Comments
Wall of Fame
Intro The Wall of Fame
What is the Wall Of Fame? Simply put, it is a giant RGB wall made completely out of keyboards that can be used to stream
January 20, 2019 No Comments
Docker
Kubernetes by n00bs
Will a junior with only 1 mini project on his track record be able to educate you on Kubernetes? Or will it be a funny
January 13, 2019 No Comments
Elasticsearch
Matching documents with queries using the Elasticsearch Percolator query Introduction
Recently, on one of my projects, a real estate website, a new story popped-up telling us that we should use the search preferences (price, type
October 30, 2018 No Comments
Kafka
Accessing Kafka on Google Kubernetes Engine from the outside world
Running and operating a Kafka cluster on Kubernetes can be a tricky part. There are already many tutorials, blogpost, Helm Charts, Operators, … that will
August 10, 2018 No Comments
AI
#5 Case study Machine Learning: ToTheArcade: the architecture
Okay, went on a small vacation in between, so this blogpost took a little longer to write since me and the kids were busy mastering
July 16, 2018 No Comments
AI
#4 Case Study Machine Learning: ToTheArcade: diving into the models
Since the last blogpost, I left my feature engineering journey behind and can now finally can start looking at some models. No Free Lunch Theorem
June 25, 2018 1 Comment
AI
#3 Case Study Machine Learning: ToTheArcade: final feature engineering part
Last blogpost we discussed the problem and we started working a bit on describing our task environment. To summarize: We structured our data, got rid
June 18, 2018 2 Comments
AI
#2 Case Study Machine Learning: ToTheArcade: setting goals and determining data
Ok, last post was a bit of an introduction… let’s cut the fat of our last blogpost and cut to the chase in this one.
June 11, 2018 No Comments
AI
#1 Case Study Machine Learning: ToTheArcade: the project
Ok, everybody is talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, interchangeably and most of the time just confusing people. First of all, they are not the
June 4, 2018 No Comments
Encryption
Setup let’s encrypt to secure your website
Setup let’s encrypt to secure your website If you don’t know what Let’s Encrypt is, let me briefly explain. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated and open
January 23, 2018 4 Comments
Microservices
Microservices: The most occurring obstacles
The intention of this blog post is to tackle the most occurring obstacles that people find on their way to microservices. SHARED DATASTORE A big
January 23, 2018 No Comments
Documentation
Documenting a Spring Boot Microservice using Spring Rest Docs
Last september, Andy Wilkinson, Spring IO Platform lead at cloud-native platform company Pivotal gave a talk in Washington DC at SpringOne2GX about ‘Documenting Restful APIs’ (slides). See this webinar for reference: He
January 23, 2018 2 Comments
DDD
A practical introduction to DDD and ODD coming from Standard Rails, Part 1
This series is intended for an audience that feels comfortable with the basics of Ruby and Rails and wants to learn how to add practical
January 23, 2018 No Comments
Agile Methodology
Doing Agile versus Being Agile revisited: 3 anti-patterns to probe for
A lot has already been written on the difference between “Doing Agile” and “Being Agile”.“Doing Agile” boils down to using the agile terminology, because everybody
January 23, 2018 No Comments
A practical introduction to DDD and ODD coming from Standard Rails, Part 2
PART 2: QUERY OBJECTS INTRODUCTION Typical responsibilities of a Fat Model. Validating data coming through controllers (validations) Keeping track of the relations between the tables
January 23, 2018 No Comments
Agile Methodology
Roots of Agility
The current feeling about “Agile” in enterprises is a bit on the negative site – Gartner’s trough of disillusionment etc … It seems to be
January 23, 2018 No Comments
JavaScript
JSCONF 2017 – Spotted JavaScript trends to look out for
What’s happening in the world of JavaScript? Recently, one of our Pointers attended JSConf where multiple experts in the field took the stage and presented
January 23, 2018 No Comments
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