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Deploying an Azure Kubernetes cluster with Terraform

Hello reader, Jorge here. In this post I will be showing you how to deploy an Azure Kubernetes cluster with Terraform. I will be using the following technology stack so you better be prepared with the tools installed and working properly: Terraform is an awesome open source tool that helps developers automate the provisioning of cloud infrastructure and objects, such as virtual machines, storage, networks, and more. It is a tool that allows you to define your infrastructure as code and deploy it to the cloud provider of your choice

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Kubernetes components

Hello reader, Jorge here. I’ll be starting a series of articles about Kubernetes since I’m studying for the CKAD exam. In this post I will be talking about the components that make up a Kubernetes cluster. I will be using the following diagram to explain the building blocks: The diagram above shows the components that make up a Kubernetes cluster. The components are divided into two groups: The control plane: Manages the worker nodes and the Pods in the cluster.

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Enable Query Log Mysql

Hello people, this time I’ll use this blog post a a placeholder for a snippet that is useful when working with My SQL and specially if you’re having trouble understanding behaviours on your database. Enable Query Log Mysql There are a couple of options when you want to enable query log on your database, the first one is to use the following configuration: For MySQL 5.1.28 and older, edit the /etc/my.

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Playing With Dall E 2

Hello again dear reader! I was a little bit concerned about not writing so much this 2022, but the pandemy has relaxed and now the real world is taking my whole energy. So instead of giving you my words, this time I’ll give you a more visual content. To give a little bit of context Dall-E and Dall-E 2 are machine learning models developed by OpenAI. Those are state-of-the-art machine artificial intelligence models, that basically means that some nerdy guys took a lot of data, used some crazy math on it and then resulted on a couple of models cappable of generating images based on a provided description.

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P5 Visualizations

Hello dear reader, this time I don’t have much words, but instead I want to share some code I haven’t shared for a long. A few years ago, I had a work pause and got some time to make some courses, checking priorities and decision making. On 2015 after getting a last paycheck for a project, I found this great Kadenze platform and this great course from the Processing foundation.

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Hiring Technical Profiles for IT

Hello random reader that’s browsing this content, if this is the first time you’re here, then you probably reached this site by google searching or you’re probably a technical recruiter or someone that clicked on my website’s link, any kind of reader you’re, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE, please get comfortable. Today I’d like to write some thoughts that I’ve been having around the technical recruiting processes and of course specifically around IT roles, if you’ve read my previous posts, you migh be thinking that this is only salt, but if you read carefully you’d realize that I like to point things that are normalized of that have become the rule for no reason, so let’s go ahead and deep dive.

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Dark Patterns that I hate the most

Image source Firstly I’d like to apologize for being so salty on thi blog lately. Since I deleted my Twitter account earlier on this year, I miss to spread my salt around so I’m using this blog now, however, I’m hoping this is not only my personal opinion but also a place to share ideas with people. Having said that, I want to start by defining what a Dark Pattern is:

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Cloud and Culture or Why enterprises fail on Cloud adoption?

Hi everyone, I hope you’re having a great time during this pandemic or at least staying healthy and safe enjoying your 127.0.0.1. In my case I’ve been studying, dealing with anxiety, changing routines for all that stuff that we considered as normal life before this lockdown. Also this pandemic came with the opportunity to change my current job, I got the opportunity to land a technical manager offer at a big insurance enterprise which later I declined in favor of sticking to my technical career.

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Hugo + Cloudfront

As you can read on my previous blog post, I’ve choosen a set of AWS technologies to back this blog, however here’s the full post on how to set up your own Hugo blog on AWS using CloudFront. Create an example Hugo website You can use this Quickstart to set up your example Hugo website. However, here’s the TL;RD: hugo new site quickstart cd quickstart git init git submodule add https://github.

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Hello world!

Hello internet 😄 it’s being a long time since I stopped blogging, however, as I’ve always said, writting is more a necesity than a luxury. Today I’m gonna talk about the tech stack I’m using for blogging, In the past I’ve used Ghost for my previous blog, and a long time ago I also used Joomla!, those are great tools and a lot of technical writters do use Ghost for writting articles, or blogging.