Some recommendations on tools that proved useful for remote collaboration. Obviously this is a thing in times of corona virus. Remote Retrospectives https://www.teamretro.com Video Conferences Google Meet (my favourite so far in terms of features and audio/video quality) Collaborative Whiteboards https://miro.com (I hear a lot of good things about it. seems to be nice)

There is this recurring topic of how to inject runtime configuration into an applications configuration. This is especially relevant while packaging of applications in docker images. Imagine an application expecting it’s configuration to reside in a file like /etc/myapp.conf. If you build a docker image for it you could add a config file on build […]

If you use home-brew on your Mac, getting started with Rust is fairly easy. Updating rust can be done with:

I wanted to run a small backend API service used by another frontend facing service in a simple and stress free manner. This felt like the perfect opportunity to give Fargate a try. It is a fully managed docker container runtime provided by AWS and nicely integrated into the AWS ecosystem. Well it is early […]