( or how to migrate from Netlify ) There’s a myriad of ways to deploy a web app in a JAMSTACK fashion. And an abundance of tools that do this with an almost plug and play experience. One of them is Netlify. Deploying to Netlify a gatsby.js app is as easy as creating a github repo. However, if…

Every organization with a couple of microservices needs to control who can access those services, and under what conditions. An API gateway is an inevitable solution to this problem. But should you use an existing configurable proxy like Envoy, Ngnix, Zuul, Kong, aws API gateway ( and the list can…

Snowflake is a highly impressive database system that offers exceptional performance and a seamless developer experience. Nevertheless, the platform can become expensive at times, and its pricing structure can be somewhat bewildering. …

GitHub actions are awesome. I love it. But often a build step must connect to a private resource in your cloud. For example, a MySQL server running in a private network, or a private k8s cluster. This can become a real obstacle, what you should not do, is open your…

When shit will hit the fan, you better be ready. Having a disaster recovery plan will save your ass one day in the future. For example, what will happen if someone will accidentally delete your k8s cluster ? If your organization is using GitOps deployment style, which by itself is…

If you are writing an api gateway, you need TLS termination (https requests), and you probably don’t want to manage SSL certificates (public keys signed by someone all the internet trust), yourself . If you use GKE. A simple solution can be achieved using a k8s ingress a CRD named…

As it turns out. The way to integrate code coverage into your build pipeline with GitHub actions is to use a third-party solution, like codcov.io and others. Those solutions are fantastic but can cost up to 20$ / month per user. And they come with many advanced features that not…

Java once-famous motto: “Write once and run everywhere” is pretty much obsolete these days, the only place we want to run code is inside a container. Where a “Just in time” compiler does not make any sense. For this reason, probably, the Java ecosystem is in the midst of its…

It is sometimes useful to know for every log message at what point in time of the service life it was logged, for example, errors caused by memory leaks may be logged only after the service was up for days, and request latency warnings may be logged only at the…