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February 25, 2020 3 mins read
General

Hello Photography

Mid 2019 I have started contributing photos that I took to Unsplash. Unsplash is my main goto resource to spice up presentations, documents and talks. I even use it as a resource to put sample photos into the applications I build (when not using picsum.photos or placekittens.com). Over the years, I have used hundreds of photos that individual photographers all over the world have made, edited and contributed to the ever-growing Unsplash library. It was about time to give back some of the photos that I took over the years. The photos are not only on Unsplash, but also available on my website in the photography section.

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January 17, 2020 6 mins read
Engineering

The Art of Writing Scripts for CI/CD

Writing scripts for continous integration/delivery (CI/CD) pipelines is often done as quick as possible in order to get the pipeline green (i.e. working as expected). Often though, the good engineering practices we put into our applications are neglected for the CI/CD pipelines. When projects and code bases evolve over time this can easily become an error-prone maintenance nightmare that no one dares to touch. This blog post will show some ideas you can use to significantly improve the maintainability and robustness of any CI/CD pipeline setup.

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November 11, 2019 1 mins read

The Challenges of Taking Open Source Cloud Foundry to Production

When committing to Cloud Foundry some companies make the strategic decision to take full ownership of platform deployment and operations and deploy open source Cloud Foundry to fully understand all moving parts. While open-source Cloud Foundry has gotten rather easy to delpoy with the cf-deployment project, there is still a lot of more to do in order to make an open-source deployment production ready. This talk will show the challenges we’ve gone through…

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October 17, 2019 1 mins read

Cloud Foundry - A Platform for Everyone

Cloud Foundry is a cloud application platform that makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications. The platform is recently being adopted by lots of companies to securely host thousands of applications while at the same time reducing operational burden for developers significantly. The platform is equipped with…

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