http://blog.b3o.ca/ Borko Djurkovic Blog Hugo -- gohugo.ioenborkod@b3o.ca (Borko) borkod@b3o.ca (Borko)Fri, 16 Oct 2020 01:01:01 -0400 http://blog.b3o.ca/hacktoberfest-2020/ Fri, 16 Oct 2020 01:01:01 -0400 Author http://blog.b3o.ca/hacktoberfest-2020/ We all use open source software. Our lives wouldn’t be the same without it. Android OS powers millions of cell phones used daily. Likewise, Linux OS is another example of open source software that countless small and large business depend on to literally run their IT infrastructure. There are entire industries spawned and developed around open source products. It proliferates into all aspects of our society. In the same way, I am a frequent consumer of open source software in my daily personal and professional life.]]> http://blog.b3o.ca/podcasts-sept2020/ Tue, 06 Oct 2020 01:01:01 -0400 Author http://blog.b3o.ca/podcasts-sept2020/ These are few podcast episodes that truly stood out for me over the past few weeks. I thought I would share them as I believe that many will find them informative or entertaining. They are in no particular order. Arrested DevOps Podcast: Don’t Worry, Do Care With Aaron Blohowiak In this episode of Arrested DevOps (ADO) podcast, ADO’s Jessica interviews Aaron Blohowiak, a senior software engineer at Netflix. The discussion covers a variety of topics.]]> http://blog.b3o.ca/k8s-book-reviews/ Fri, 25 Sep 2020 01:01:01 -0400 Author http://blog.b3o.ca/k8s-book-reviews/ Over the past few weeks, I’ve had some free time and took the opportunity to read a few books on Kubernetes. Most of these books are available for free online, so would make great reading material for those new to Kubernetes and looking to learn more on the subject. I’ve included links to the online versions where available. Here are some hasty reviews of several of them. Kubernetes: Up and Running Kubernetes: Up and Running is a relatively short book at just above ~250 pages and is a very quick read.]]> http://blog.b3o.ca/keep-it-simple/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:53:21 -0400 Author http://blog.b3o.ca/keep-it-simple/ Quote The greatest ideas are the simplest. ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies Design for today’s requirements Any product or application solution should be designed and built to meet today’s business requirements. Do not try to predict the future. Product owners/solution architects/developers sometimes have a habit to over-design the architecture and implement “useful” features. I’ve been guilty of this on a number of occasions. It is very enticing on take on an extra challenge!]]> http://blog.b3o.ca/musings-on-kubernetes/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:53:21 -0400 Author http://blog.b3o.ca/musings-on-kubernetes/ It has been really busy few months! For a long while, I’ve had a lot of interest in Kubernetes / Docker technologies, and I’ve always kept an eye on the development in that ecosystem. I’ve occasionally played around with some of the tooling, but I never had time to really delve deep into it. Over the past few months, there have been some changes in my work and it shifted its focus on Kubernetes technology.]]> http://blog.b3o.ca/azure-global-load-balancing-comparison/ Sun, 29 Mar 2020 21:43:04 -0400 Author http://blog.b3o.ca/azure-global-load-balancing-comparison/ Global load-balancing services distribute traffic across applications and endpoints hosted across different regions/geographies. These services route end-user traffic to the available backend based on configurable routing rules. They also feature endpoint monitoring in order to improve high availability and reliability of backend services. Azure offers two global load-balancing services: Azure Traffic Manager and Azure Front Door. Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that distributes traffic to services across global Azure regions.]]> http://blog.b3o.ca/azure-functions-binding-expression-parameterization/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 21:43:04 -0400 Author http://blog.b3o.ca/azure-functions-binding-expression-parameterization/ Azure Functions is an event driven, serverless computing service provided by Microsoft Azure Cloud platform. Azure Functions allows developers to deploy code connecting to data sources or messaging solutions thus enabling easier implementation of event driven processing of messages. Azure Functions, like rest of serverless computing, is designed to accelerate and simplify application development by removing the responsibility of infrastructure management. Azure Functions uses concept of bindings as a way of declaratively connecting another resource to the function.]]> http://blog.b3o.ca/microsoft-ignite-the-tour-toronto-recap/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 21:43:04 -0400 Author http://blog.b3o.ca/microsoft-ignite-the-tour-toronto-recap/ Microsoft Ignite the Tour conference is a two-day version of Microsoft’s annual Ignite technology conference that Microsoft is bringing to a number of cities around the world. Last week I had the opportunity to attend the conference in Toronto. As usual at these types of events, there was “The Hub”, a central meeting place where large number of sponsors had booths set up demonstrating their products or services and giving out SWAG.]]> http://blog.b3o.ca/aws-certified-database-specialty-exam-guide/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 21:43:04 -0400 Author http://blog.b3o.ca/aws-certified-database-specialty-exam-guide/ In late November of 2019, AWS announced a new specialty certification focusing specifically on database technologies. The AWS Certified Database - Specialty Exam beta period started in early December of 2019 with the standard certification exam availability target date being April of 2020. At the start of December, I participated in the beta attempting the beta exams. As of this writing, I do not know my results and whether on not I achieved the certification.]]>