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Rolling restart for zero downtime deployments.

I'm aware of these products, but do not fit my use case. I need to run some services on premises and have set up a self hosted Kubernetes instance on a physical server in a rack. I…

I'm a developer that uses Kubernetes in production purely because I want to be able to use the same Docker images that I use in development. I am not a Kubernetes advocate but what…

I'm currently reading "Spycatcher" by Peter Wright, I would recommend if you're interested in topics like this.

What do you mean? You can't pay your mortgage with "great company ethos" or "free beers on Friday"?

Another frustrating tactic they have started to use is bait positions with attractive "specifications". They use these to draw you into communicating with them and start offering s…

A few years ago I also found a serious bug in a debt collection agencies web software. I ordered a phone and neglected to pay import tax and was chased by the agency. I found their…

What overhead is there using silex instead?? Even if there were an overhead, I'd rather have the stability of a fully tested framework than relying on an implementation with no tes…

It looks pretty. I just wish someone would build a decent CMS on top of silex/symfony/laravel, rather than implement their own framework to drive their CMS, such as in this case (L…