Static assets optimization for websites

I recently restyled my website (this one!) switching from Wordpress to GhostCMS and SvelteKit (which are great,but that's a story for another day). In the process I wanted to reach some good speed to please both the

Ansible forks/serial on a task level

If your inventory contains the same host multiple times (think dynamic inventories or something defined via Terraform) and then you run a playbook against that (eg. target: all) you'll end up trying to run the same tasks simultaneously

eBPF application monitoring on Kubernetes

Just a quick one, since I recently found out about Pixie which is a super interesting opensource project recently bought by NewRelic. It's an agent which you can install on your k8s cluster (or on your standard VM)

Backup Kubernetes volumes in AWS

When using Kops on AWS to deploy your Kubernetes cluster you'll find yourself with multiple elastic block storage volumes which are the PersistentVolumeClaim implementation on AWS. Snapshots are then a great way to provide backups, and especially so

DevPresto resources for developers

DevPresto is a fast online resource collection for developers. It features some tools (like markup formatting, sql formatting, md5 calculation) and will host a series of hand-picked guides and tutorials. It aims to be a useful website for everyday development

Switching from Minitest to RSpec

Minitest is great and it now the standard tool to test a Ruby on Rails application, I have been using it for a long time and it works great. However while working on a client's project I found

VirtualBox 6.1.28 and Minikube issues

So VirtualBox 6.1.28 has been released and with it the support for Linux 5.14 and, of course, a lot of other interesting features. I just discovered one the hard way, while upgrading my Arch machine. I'

PSD2 dal punto di vista di uno sviluppatore

Cos’é la PSD2 La direttiva dell’UE 2015/2366 (Payment Service Directive 2 – PSD2) è una nuova legge Europea che ha come oggetto il mercato dei pagamenti nell’Unione. È un’evoluzione della direttiva 2007/64/CE (Payment Service