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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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August 01, 2019 5 mins read
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Relaunching my Website with an Agile Process

Previously, I ran my website with a PHP-based CMS on a shared host and since quite some time I wanted to port it to a static site generator and serve it off of AWS S3. Finally, I found the time to do it. This post summarizes what and why I did my website as it is now, and what process and tools I used to achieve it. Setting the Goal With my old website running on Kirby CMS for years I had to maintain a shared host that runs it, and have Cloudflare setup to have improved loading times.

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July 04, 2019 1 mins read

Quo Vadis Netflix Stack?

Netflix dürfte für die meisten als Streaming-Dienstleister bekannt sein. Viele Entwickler erfreuen sich an den Open-Source Werkzeugen wie Eureka für Service-Discovery und Hystrix für Resilience. Dementsprechend gilt Netflix auch als Pionier rund um die Themen Microservices und Betrieb. Mit Hilfe von Spring Cloud Netflix ist es möglich durch wenige…

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