Locks, Deadlocks and Liquidbase
A story of a nasty encounter with a corrupt lock caused by unexpectedly shutting down an application executing Liquidbase and the deadlocks it caused, preventing instances from booting up.
I like to build and break things. Lately, I’ve been working on tools that improve developer’s lives and productivity. Sometimes I also dabble in automating stuff and optimizing infrastructure. These days I write Python, Go and Kotlin.
I try to use this page for sharing whatever I am interested in or learning. Here you can also know more about me, what projects I am working on or have a look at my past research.
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Latest Essays
DevOps Principles of Feedback: Understanding What's Going On
A summary of the principles behind enabling a “fast and constant” flow of feedback from production all the way back to engineers.
Another Way of Accessing Host Resources in Minikube
An update on a previous essay I wrote about accessing host resources on Minikube which has now become outdated. Minikube now has improved on this and has a much better approach.
Traffic: January to June 2021
A few notes on the traffic this website has received between January and June 2021.
KubeCon Europe 2021: Highlights #4
Stream of consciousness notes about my experience during KubeCon Europe 2021 and cool things I’ve learned or enjoyed.
KubeCon Europe 2021: Highlights #3
Stream of consciousness notes about my experience during KubeCon Europe 2021 and cool things I’ve learned or enjoyed.
KubeCon Europe 2021: Highlights #2
Stream of consciousness notes about my experience during KubeCon Europe 2021 and cool things I’ve learned or enjoyed.
KubeCon Europe 2021: Highlights #1
Stream of consciousness notes about my experience during KubeCon Europe 2021 and cool things I’ve learned or enjoyed.
Software Engineering Problems Are Sociological
Peopleware has been published in 1987 and the reason that it is still as relevant today as it was back then is because of the premise of the book: software development projects fail because of inner failures within the teams that run those projects.
What If Kotest Had HTML Reports?
Another story about a small contribution to open-source. This time, I’ve opened a pull request in Kotest to implement generation of HTML reports.