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WireGuard VPN setup in Terraform CDK for Road Warriors
December 2021Terraform CDK is the next generation of the multi-cloud provider Infrastructure-as-Code tooling from Hashicorp. It’s not fully mature, in my opinion, but on it’s way and already usable. This article explores the current state with the use-case of a “Road Warrior” VPN setup, that is based on WireGuard and that can be easily deployed into multiple clouds (and used with my Mac).
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Finally A Personal Knowledge Management Tooling That Works
November 2021I was interested in the topic of personal knowledge management since I first used a computer for learning. So far I could not find a solution that really worked well for me. Until now. I found my second brain. If you are a knowledge worker as well, are not gifted with a perfect memory and therefore need a tooling to help you manage the knowledge you learn - read on in the blog post.
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Application Platform as Code
June 2021An experiment with Infrastructure as Code and Application Platforms that investigates how both these things can work together, including a prototype library written in Typescript for AWS CDK.
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On the Value of Platform Engineering
March 2021My attempt to define what Platform Engineering means for me and what value it brings if employed.
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My Static Website Blogging Stack on AWS
March 2021I modularized my blogging stack in AWS that uses Hugo, S3, CloudFront, Route53 and ACM in an AWS CDK NPM package. This is a show-n-tell.
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Why I like AWS CDK
February 2021AWS CDK has been around for a while now and most of the main APIs reached stable. This is a look on the state of affairs from the perspective of a platform engineer.
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Practical introduction to Go: Application development (3/3)
July 2020Dive into Go application development. Understand advanced language concepts. Express an application design in Go. Learn to write tests.
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Practical introduction to Go: Language basics (2/3)
June 2020Understand the Go language basics. Get familiar with the Go ecosystem and standard library. Run and compile your first Go program.
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Practical introduction to Go: Development environment (1/3)
June 2020Setup local Go development environment