Cloud technology
Running your applications not on servers that are in your possession (either onsite or in a datacenter), but on somebody else’s server. That is where it all began. When people are talking about ‘the cloud’, they often mean the original big three: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure Google Cloud […]
Essential Git – Part 2
Be sure to check out the last post. In the intro I explain that we’ll be experimenting with some cool technologies to, for example, setup a webserver from scratch the coming weeks. But first we need a good grasp on the basics, and the basis of this all is git. Git […]
Essential Git – Part 1
The coming weeks we’ll be experimenting with some cool technologies to, for example, setup a webserver from scratch with a couple Infrastructure as Code tools and configuration management tools, websites served by Docker containers, a reverse proxy based on Traefik and a couple of different VPS and cloud providers. The […]
Screen hero
Screen hero One of the first tools I’ll always install on any Linux system, be it baked in via Packer, installed via cloud init or deployed with Ansible, is a terminal multiplexer, more specifically GNU screen. A terminal multiplexer is a terminal window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between […]
Vim expert
Working in the Linux terminal every day, for me it is a no-brainer to use vi, more specifically vim. It’s installed by default on every Linux system (vi is anyway) and it is very, very powerful. The only thing that could hold you back is, as it is jokingly called, […]
Hot topic: Cyber security
Big data and cyber security are inseparable and both are large parts of our future. From governments, to financial institutions, to technology and social media platforms: all are collecting data on a large scale that also needs to be optimally secured. Cyber security has become big business and worth investing […]
Consultancy community in the Netherlands (VVDN)
As a consultancy, you know better than anyone that the consultancy sector plays a crucial role in the current Dutch labor market. No less than 1.6% of the Dutch working population is employed as a consultant. This makes a consultancy community in the Netherlands an indispensable pillar of the labor […]
Future Tech 2019: The international tech conference
During the first edition of Future Tech 2019, Microsoft was very clear in their intention: the future is now, but you sometimes have to wait for it. People often speak about technology being at an early stage, to the extent that discussions are rather speculative fiction. At Future Tech 2019 […]
