Why Vue is better than Angular Vue’s popularity in Google Trends Vue’s keyword analytics in Google Trends makes it clear that Vue is crushing both Angular and React in popularity — which is a good thing according to this writer’s bias. Vue is more loved than Angular by developers If we then ask the Frontend …
Troubleshooting RabbitMQ mirrored queues made easy.
Minimal effort to check if something is broken We had an unused tv at our disposal a few months back and were looking for ways to use it in a productive manner (no Netflix!). Someone came up with the idea to show all kinds of dashboards, for logging, builds, deploys, metrics, you name it. But …
This is not yet another blogpost… this is a rant! What you’ll read below is extremely opinionated and no exact science, so feel free to give your opinion on the matter. We all love Pepper Now let me start by saying that having a pepper robot (or multiple) is not a crime and that the …
What can you do with Open Policy Agent (OPA)? Last year, me and a colleague, attended KubeCon/CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen. During those day on the conference we discovered lots of new tools, frameworks. One of those discoveries was Open Policy Agent (https://www.openpolicyagent.org). From now on I will use OPA when talking about Open Policy Agent. At …
Will a junior with only 1 mini project on his track record be able to educate you on Kubernetes? Or will it be a funny thing to read? Let’s find out! WARNING: The following content has been written without any former research, anything written in this article might be completely wrong. This will be a …
Recently, on one of my projects, a real estate website, a new story popped-up telling us that we should use the search preferences (price, type of real estate, location), that registered users can save, to send notifications to these users, when a new house or appartement is published on the website. Not immediately having a …
Running and operating a Kafka cluster on Kubernetes can be a tricky part. There are already many tutorials, blogpost, Helm Charts, Operators, … that will give you detailed information on installing a working Kafka cluster on Kubernetes with StatefulSets, Headless services and other Kubernetes features. But after going through all those and when finally getting …
Okay, went on a small vacation in between, so this blogpost took a little longer to write since me and the kids were busy mastering our best splash in the hotel swimming pool. Where was I? Right, preprocessing: check, features: check, our models: check, so now it’s time to put these bad boys into production. …
Since the last blogpost, I left my feature engineering journey behind and can now finally can start looking at some models. No Free Lunch Theorem During my Machine Learning journey, I looked at 3 models (‘she’s a model and she’s looking good…’ – Kraftwerk). Why we didn’t stick with only one? Well, in Machine Learning …
Last blogpost we discussed the problem and we started working a bit on describing our task environment. To summarize: We structured our data, got rid of the noise, and already identified some difficulties we’ll have to cope with. More precisely, the task environment for our classification agent is quite complex, because of the many unknown …
Ok, last post was a bit of an introduction… let’s cut the fat of our last blogpost and cut to the chase in this one. We set ourselves a clear goal “Can we train a model to recognize patterns in button and joystick usage on our pimped arcade machine cabinet, deploy it in the cloud …
Ok, everybody is talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, interchangeably and most of the time just confusing people. First of all, they are not the same concepts. AI is a very large area covering a bunch of topics and Machine Learning is just one of them. Artificial Intelligence Vs Machine Learning There are articles and …
Setup let’s encrypt to secure your website If you don’t know what Let’s Encrypt is, let me briefly explain. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated and open Certificate Authority (CA) that provides an easy way to obtain and install free TLS/SSL certificates. As mentioned on their website, the key principles behind Let’s Encrypt are: Free: Anyone who …
Last september, Andy Wilkinson, Spring IO Platform lead at cloud-native platform company Pivotal gave a talk in Washington DC at SpringOne2GX about ‘Documenting Restful APIs’ (slides). See this webinar for reference: He explained the pro’s and cons of working with a popular tool like Swagger and came up with an interesting alternative approach of writing tests to document your API. Sounds like …
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