Konstantin Tchernov

@Konst

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Site Reliability Engineer

Auckland, New Zealand Joined May 2022

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Site Reliability Engineer, currently at GitLab. All content and views are my own.

Software Developer by trade. Based in Auckland.

Cat person 😺 Father 👨‍👩‍👧, cyclist 🚲, Kiwi 🇳🇿.

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Konst's Blog – Site Reliability Engineering and Technologyblog.konst.kiwi6 posts

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Neovim with the TypeScript language server (LSP)

I’m trying a few new things. I’ve got a project that I’ve been experimenting with and I plan to publish as open source at some point. For this project I decided to revisit my old friend TypeScript. It’s a language I’ve used in the past, but I haven’t...

Oct 14, 20255 min read

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Four for Feb

I remember the days before the Internet was for everyone. It was a nerdy thing that you'd disconnect your parents' phone line for. Social media, endless scroll feeds, and hourly news updates were not a thing. Twitter was not there, and hate groups we...

Feb 5, 20242 min read

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Rate limiting with iptables

When running any site on the internet, it will be scanned regularly by various scripts. This is true for everything I've hosted, from a cat charity blog to financial software sites. It's not personal. Rate limiting is a rudimentary line of defence ag...

May 20, 20238 min read

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Time pressure did not cause your outage

You are crafting your beautiful application, paying extra attention to detail, but your boss is breathing down your neck saying: "Ship! Ship! Ship! 🚢 ". Shortcuts are taken. Mistakes are made. Your bug goes into Prod, and now you have an outage. May...

Apr 30, 20235 min read

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Dev Retro 2022 – sudo reboot

As a software developer, I have turned my long-time hobby into a job, which is not always a good idea. Your job does become more than just a way to make money, which leads to trouble. This blog post is my retrospective on a big mindset reboot I have ...

Dec 28, 20226 min read

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Konstantin Tchernov's blogs

Recently published

Neovim with the TypeScript language server (LSP)

Four for Feb

Rate limiting with iptables

Time pressure did not cause your outage

Dev Retro 2022 – sudo reboot