Many people are now working remote ("WFH"). How to make the best out of video calls with Google Hangouts Meet? This blog post describes how to use OBS Studio with a virtual camera device (video loopback) on Linux to add effects and scenes for Google Meet video calls.
One decade. 10 years. In one company. Or did I actually work in four companies? This blog post is the long planned successor to my 2013 post My three year journey into Zalando Technology.
Zalando SE is getting a works council (Betriebsrat). This blog post describes what I learned about the election process.
I have 8+ Python Open Source projects on github.com and on codeberg.org. This post describes my current set of tools and practices I use for maintaining them.
Running applications in production can be tricky. This post proposes an opinionated checklist for going to production with a web service (i.e. application exposing HTTP API) on Kubernetes.
I try to use Open Source Android apps whereever I can. F-Droid is a community-maintained software repository which contains only free software apps. This posts describes my favorite F-Droid apps.
Recently I was asked "how do you manage that many Kubernetes clusters?". This post tries to provide some insights on how we manage 140+ Kubernetes clusters on AWS at Zalando.
Kubernetes livenessProbe can be dangerous. I recommend to avoid them unless you have a clear use case and understand the consequences. This post looks at both Liveness and Readiness Probes and describes some "DOs" and "DON'Ts"
The story on how I messed up my K3s demo site with Traefik as Ingress controller and Let's Encrypt rate limits — or: how to configure K3s with local-path volumes.
While Go is the language-of-choice in the cloud-native world, Python has a huge community and makes it really easy to extend Kubernetes in only a few lines of code. This post is a follow-up to a talk I gave last week in Prague.