Where i was… I grew up in a working class family. My parents worked their socks off for a living mainly to raise me & my little brother up. When i was a kid, i didn’t have the luxury other kids have. I didn’t have a Sega Mega Drive or a PlayStation which…

Many years ago I was working for a software development company doing software development. …

A modern agile development scrum team should be self managing. You don’t need a Project Manager to manage the team nor do you really require a dedicated “Team Lead” to lead the team. It doesn’t mean there is no room for either a Project Manager or a Team Lead to…

Conventional Commits is (as it says on the specification website as of this writing): “A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages” Conventional Commits A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messageswww.conventionalcommits.org I came across this specification a few years ago from a recommendation from a colleague of mines at that time. At first glance, I…

Over the last few years, there has been a recent surge of upward trend in aaS (as-a-Service). In this article i am going to quickly review some of the most common “as-a-Service” within the Software Engineering/Development industry. As a concept; aaS has been around for quite some time. “as a…

It is nearly 3 years since Covid-19 first outbreak. Not many people are talking about it now anymore, certainly where I’m living right now. I was literally thinking at one point recently that since it is nearly 3 years since Covid-19 first outbreak and the fact that we now had…

The question ‘What does DevOps mean to you?’ is so cliche nowadays. I’ve have been asked this question numerous times in past interviews for the role of a DevOps Engineer. …

Everyone who uses GitHub will know GitHub is an online SCM/VCS (source code management/version control system) as a service for Software Developers/Software Programmers all over the world to store their code for their software projects and also a place for storing community open source software projects where different multiple Software…

Recently I came across this small utility tool called kubespy. GitHub - huazhihao/kubespy: pod debugging tool for kubernetes clusters with docker runtimes kubespy is a kubectl plugin to debug a running pod. It creates a short-lived spy container, using specified image…github.com It is a kubectl plugin that enables you to ‘debug’ a running pod. The way it does it underneath the hood is by creating a ‘short-lived’ spy container using the specified container image that consists of all the required debugging…