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My Personal Experience Using AI
There’s been a gigantic buzz around AI for a while now. Unless you’re living under a rock, it’s hard not to get hit by this topic. So, a month or two back, I decided to finally give it an honest shot and see if AI can bring any benefits to my work or personal life.…
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Remote Setup with EdgeVPN
Last week I started using my old 13″ laptop and left the bulky 15″ workstation permanently at my desk. This setup gives me portability without loosing power when I’m connected to my home network. Today, I decided to configure EdgeVPN on both devices to also have this setup while on the road. EdgeVPN makes use…
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Revived my Dell XPS 9350
My work laptop has been giving me some trouble since I first installed openSUSE Tumbleweed. At first, it was just small annoyances, like not properly syncing the time. But installing the OS again is a bit of a hassle, as much as I enjoy doing it, so I found a workaround to reset it whenever…
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Added ARM/RPI support for Ubuntu on Kairos
Work this week came with a few challenges, but with enough patience and some help I was able to get the Ubuntu flavor for Kairos working on the Raspberry Pi. https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos/pull/1170 Feedback loops when working on ARM are very slow because I’m cross compiling and because I have to burn the images on the SD…
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My Plans for FOSDEM 2023
FOSDEM 2023 is just around the corner, and I’m very excited. This will be my first in-person tech conference since before the pandemic. My last talk in FOSDEM was back in 2016, so I’m very much looking forward to the presentation I will give on Sunday. There are many talks that I’m interested in listening…
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Deploying a Go Microservice in Kubernetes
Most of my experience with web applications is with monoliths deployed to a PaaS or using configuration management tools to traditional servers. Last week, I submerged myself in a different paradigm, the one of microservices. In this post, I’m going to share what I learned by deploying a Go application on top of Kubernetes. To…
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Introductory Course to Kubernetes on Edge with K3s
There’s a lot I need to learn for the new project I’m working on. Finding information is not really the problem, there’s quite a lot out there, what is hard is to filter through all the information you might not need and connecting the dots to have a clear perspective on your mind. I found…
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It’s Kairos Time
I’m excited to announce that I joined Spectro Cloud. I’ll be part of the team building Kairos, the immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes. Ok, a lot to unpack there, and I’m still very new to it, so I have numerous questions myself, but for my own sake, I will unwrap it: For as long…
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The Maintenance Price Tag
When adding new features to a software product, we tend to plan them by the value they bring versus the cost of development. However, it’s critical to consider that they also come with a maintenance price tag attached to them. Ignoring this cost, can affect the user experience, cause a system crash and/or make it…
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10 Years Working Abroad
Today, I’m celebrating 10 years since I moved to Europe and became a migrant worker. Living abroad helped me grow as a programmer, professional and a human being. This is a short summary about the process, challenges, and key learnings from this experience. In 2011, I finished my first big web development project, and it…