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Engineering Managers: Navigating Complexity and Challenges

Engineering Managers (EMs) operate at the intersection of strategy, execution, and culture. Their role is multifaceted, demanding constant negotiation between high-level organizational goals and granular operational realities. To fully grasp the complexity of this role, we’ll examine it through the lens of Prof. Aswath Damodaran ’s Classical Firm Structure, which highlights inherent trust deficits and…

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Kubernetes Rollouts

Key Features 🌟 Zero-Downtime Updates 🔄 Enables application updates without service interruption Gradually replaces old pods with new ones Maintains application availability during updates Version Control 📝 Manages different versions of your application Keeps track of deployment history Enables easy rollback if issues occur Traffic Management 🚦 Controls how traffic is shifted to new versions…

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Mastering Webhooks in Serverless Applications: A Complete Guide

Hi there! I’m Mehmet Akar, a database enthusiast and a long-time advocate of modern, scalable backend solutions. If you’re like me, you’ve probably faced the challenges of implementing webhooks in serverless applications—making sure they’re reliable, fault-tolerant, and easy to manage. Webhooks are a critical part of many modern systems, but handling retries, failures, and scalability…

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AWS STEP FUNCTIONS

AWS STEP FUNCTIONS

1. Service Overview Service Name: AWS Step Functions Logo: Tagline or One-Line Description: Build and coordinate complex workflows with ease. 2. Key Features Top Features: 1.Visual Workflow Design: Create workflows using a visual interface that simplifies the orchestration of microservices and serverless applications. 2.State Management: Automatically manage the state of your application, ensuring that each…

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Create Multi Stage Docker Image

Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping and running applications. Modern application deployment requires the creation of effective and optimized Docker images. Docker images frequently grow excessively which affects resource utilization and performance. Docker’s multi stage build feature offers a simplified method of reducing image size without sacrificing functionality in order to solve this…

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TDD helper in c#

Visibility is crucial in all aspects of life. This cuts through in programming as well. This is further given light when one is using #tdd(Test Driven Developemnt). Logging significantly enhances TDD by providing insights into the behavior and execution of code. How it helps Debugging failing tests. In TDD, tests are first and then code…

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11 Best Coding Project Ideas for Beginners

Imagine this—you’ve just started learning how to code. You’ve gone through the basics of Python, JavaScript, or maybe C++, but now you’re wondering, What’s next? The answer is simple: Start building projects! Nothing cements your coding knowledge better than hands-on experience. But here’s the tricky part—what should you build? You don’t want something too complicated…

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TIL Weekly 1

This Week: What I Learned, Read, and Did. Learning/Researching Go (Golang): Learning more about concurrency, goroutines, and channels. AppleScript: Researching how to use my iPad as the main display for my Mac mini. ## Reading The Toaster Project Team Topologies Several other Japanese books Other Topics Task Management: Currently researching various task management methods for…

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From 14TB to 700GB: Optimizing Database Storage for Real-Time Monitoring

A shortened look at how TimescaleDB helps WaterBridge handle 10,000 data points per second for their oil & gas operations using TimescaleDB. Read the complete story — How WaterBridge Uses TimescaleDB for Real-Time Data Consistency. From SQL Server to TimescaleDB WaterBridge manages water infrastructure for oil and gas operations. When their database couldn’t handle 5,000-10,000…

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Blue-Green and Canary Deployments: A Deep Dive into Modern Deployment Strategies

Blue-Green and Canary Deployments: A Deep Dive into Modern Deployment Strategies

Software deployment has evolved significantly from the days of scheduled downtime and big-bang releases. Today’s users expect services to be available 24/7, and businesses need to deploy new features and fixes continuously without disrupting their operations. In this post I want to explore two sophisticated deployment strategies that help achieve these goals: Blue-Green and Canary…

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What’s Next for the KitOps Project

KitOps 1.0: Production Proven Today is an important milestone for the KitOps open source project as we release version 1.0. This isn’t just about new features (although automatically creating a ModelKit from Hugging Face or a scanned directory is exciting), it’s about the start of a journey for every KitOps user. KitOps is downloaded thousands…

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