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Log retention in ELK stack

May 7, 2023 · 5 min read · Developers kept complaining that they can't find recent logs in Kibana. It happened before for many reasons (worthy of another post), but this time was different. There was no evident problem with the log structure or FluentD log shipper anymore. We'...

IT maturity levels

Oct 3, 2022 · 3 min read · This post was written for my colleagues that only ever worked at software house. It was supposed to be short and sweet, but giving a kick for self-reflection too. Why does a company need IT? Today we're going to look at IT as a whole, a bit more broa...

Cloud-Native Platforms

Aug 19, 2022 · 2 min read · When talking about prominent technology trends it's good to ask ourselves who is going to benefit from that. In the case of Cloud-Native Platforms those are billion-dollar businesses (AWS, GCP, Azure), owned by trillion-dollar organisations (Amazon, ...

DevOps skills for Medium, Senior and Architect levels

Feb 13, 2022 · 10 min read · I've been asked to prepare an outline of DevOps skills for different levels of experience (and salary). To be honest I have no idea how those should be, as DevOps is such a broad area that it's almost impossible. Also DevOps is a little bit different...

Wasted 10 years with Bash

Oct 6, 2021 · 4 min read · Originally I published this 3 years ago on Medium, but keeping a copy here too. When you're thinking of shell on any Linux system you probably think Bash (Bourne Again Shell). On Windows too actually, as Git Bash is quite popular (despite it has got...