Welcome back to our journey 🫱🏻🫲🏽 This time, I took the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam. I’ve decided to try both new AI certifications while it still in beta, to feel the difference from the regular one (and because it has a cool early adopter badge 😆). It was really…
Hello 👋🏻 Two weeks ago I did the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam. I never really looked with attention to this exam before, as my focus were more on Architect and Development, but I finally decided to take a shot, so today I’ll share my experience on it.…
A few months ago I embarked on the journey of automation my house as much as possible, and as everyone else, I faced the main challenge of it: How can I manage all my smart devices from many brands in a single interface? And that’s how I met Home Assistant,…
When discussing API performance, caching often emerges as a key strategy. By storing responses from frequently accessed endpoints that are static or change infrequently, caching reduces server load and speeds up response times, making it a go-to solution for performance optimization. There are many ways to implement caching, from the…
Hey folks, what’s up? Yesterday I did the AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam after my old one expired and with that, it’s officially open my journey to get the AWS golden jacket. This was never a real goal, but as we’ve already come a third of the way, having…
Efficient image management is essential for smooth deployments and stremlined development workflows and rely only on Docker Hub to pull public images can lead to rate limits and slower pulls. Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) offers a robust solution by serving as a cache repository for public Docker images. Leveraging…
What’s up folks? This is a two-part post, so if you missed part 1, I truly recommend you to read it: How to accelerate the Kubernetes cluster configuration using FluxCD – Part1. In the last post, we’ve seen how to use FluxCD to install global components to our Kubernetes cluster…
Have you ever had to create a new kubernetes cluster and thought “Oh no, where is the helm chart I used to install and configure the operator X in the current cluster?”. On a enterprise scale, having to provision new kubernetes clusters can be a recurring and painful task. Whether…
Managing kubernetes secrets in large scale is a challenging task for many companies in a world runned by kubernetes, gitops and automation everywhere. With the advent of GitOps, engineers are encouraged to store and manage infrastructure as code (e.g. control planes, kubernetes yaml’s) in a Git repository as single source…
