Erster Blick auf die neue Hetzner Cloud
Hetzner Cloud: Die kleinste mögliche Cloud ist an den Start gegangen. Man bekommt schon ganz viel, obwohl fast alles noch fehlt.…
Read more »Kubernetes wins over Apache Hadoop
A prediction of change in dominance between two siblings
Recently, Apache Hadoop 3 has been released. Really, who cares? Everyone and his aunt is jumping onto the Kubernetes train. While maybe it seems that Hadoop and Kubernetes are very different beasts, in reality, they are not. It’s kind of the same thing, but in different flavors. Yet, Kubernetes looks like the overall winner. …
Read more »Things Google practices that your company doesn’t (part 2)
Episode 2: Embrace Software Rewrites
Joel Spolsky’s essays are legend. His collection of posts on his blog “Joel on Software” in the years from 2000 onwards have been very influential in the development community, not only because of their engaging writing style, but because they set clear directions for tech companies. One specific dogma he successfully implanted in my head was: “Never ever do a complete software rewrite” (You can read it here, please return afterwards). This probably is still very true today, because
“when you start from scratch there is absolutely no reason to believe that you are going to do a better job than you did the first time”.
Let’s stress this dogma.
… Read more »Things Google practices that your company doesn’t (part 1)
Initial episode: Stopping services which run too well
I’m an IT consultant. Never did I suggest to any of my clients they should interrupt a well-running application in production. Maybe that was not as professional as it might seem. Let’s see why. …
Read more »What's the Required Score to Become Google Cloud Architect? -- Well, It Depends!
How to Prepare for the Google Cloud Architect Certification Exam
Early February, I got email from Google saying I had passed the Cloud Architect certification exam. Yay! This post reflects what helped me preparing for the test.…
Read more »Convergence of the Clouds
How Google and Microsoft take similar routes
Recently, I’ve been involved with the Clouds. Not so much everybody’s darling AWS, but more the runner-ups in the race: Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Both cool kids, but everyone with his its very different style and philosophy of what it considers “cool”. …
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