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Build your own “data lake” for reporting purposes in a multi-services environment

Tech companies nowadays swear by data-driven decisions. It can be good for specific business KPIs, however, if taken too far it can lead to incorrect optimisations (too local), social pressure on your employees, incorrect business decisions, metrics with no meaning.

configuration

Adding Fun to the Configuration Burden

Did you ever enjoy writing XML files by hand? No, OK, I thought so. Was it better with JSON? No. What about YAML where the indentation is so easy right? No, none of these are enjoyable. The reason for all these no is simple: formats are meant to be read or written by machines and not by humans.

infrastructure

From a click-a-boo cloud architecture to Infrastructure as Code

Like many start-ups we started with a proof of concept which transformed into a production system. The team was a developer-driven one, with neither system administrators nor “devops” people.

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