Why Thinkpad X220 is the best laptop ever made

I'm rather certain that you will come to the same conclusion, esteemed reader, as I did, namely that the Thinkpad X220 is the best laptop ever made, in consideration of the following points. 1 - It cost me 250 Euros... | Continue reading


@okigiveup.net | 3 years ago

Discovering AWS with the CLI Part 2: ECS and Fargate

In the first part of this tutorial, we looked at provisioning AWS EC2 resources using the CLI client, and delved into the details of how various networking components function. In this second part, we will look at using containers instead... | Continue reading


@okigiveup.net | 4 years ago

Discovering AWS with the CLI Part 1: Networking and Virtual Machines

Recently, I started working on moving an application that was deployed manually to an AWS EC2 instance to a more modern, infrastructure-as-code setup. This gave me the chance to dive deeper into AWS concepts, and play around with the various... | Continue reading


@okigiveup.net | 4 years ago

Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum

Scrum is now the default agile software development methodology. This management framework, which is "simple to understand but difficult to master", is used by 66% of all agile companies. After two extensive workshops, more than five years, and a couple... | Continue reading


@okigiveup.net | 5 years ago

A tutorial introduction to Kubernetes

Kubernetes is the hottest kid on the block among container orchestration tools right now. I started writing this post when we decided to go with Kubernetes at Twyla a year ago, and since then, the developments in the ecosystem have... | Continue reading


@okigiveup.net | 5 years ago

KubeCon Impressions

I had the chance to attend KubeCon Europe in Copenhagen last week, and it was a total blast. The attendance was huge, with developers from all over the world, and I had great conversations with many different people. There were... | Continue reading


@okigiveup.net | 5 years ago