Articles - Federico Marani

A retrospective on three years migrating a Django platform to Kubernetes

How QoS classes and Priority classes work together to determine what happens under node pressure

Clarifying some misconceptions around scaling strategies, latencies and how they play together

No more Docker, bash scripts and terminals

Something I have put together with Django and K3s

Demistifying operators by building a basic one that interacts with AWS IAM

Exploring how it builds on top of KEDA and testing how it performs

A more user-friendly alternative to access all your IoT devices

Using for loops to generate lightly customized resources

Navigating through the gateways to find where route propagation broke

Some of the things that we routinely do on our EKS nodes

Two different ways to inject configuration parameters to your pods

Several ways I have seen this implemented over the years

A record for me, having read 38 non-fiction books

First book I wrote (published with Apress)

One way to construct servers using Django management commands

Presentation and video of the talk I gave in Rimini

Using Foreign Data Wrappers to move data directly between DBMSes

Deep-dive into its various components

Managing complex data workflows with dependencies and scheduling

Why doing only the essential is the hardest thing to do

Building autonomous services with GRPC, Consul, and Kafka

Understanding the real security of HTTPS and authentication methods

Moving from Django to a static site generator with distributed hosting

What I learned from interviewing at YC in California

Measuring how technology supports your product's user journeys

Why building a marketplace for handymen in Italy didn't work

Simple server monitoring with minimal setup and maintenance

When and how to use caching without introducing bugs

Presentation on managing infrastructure with Ansible at Europython

Creating throw-away environments with Ansible and DigitalOcean

Learning the hard way about overengineering and burning out

How TrialReach automates server provisioning with Ansible

Finding the closest location across globally distributed clinical trials

Integrating translation management into your Django workflow

Building a scalable link analysis tool with Django and Celery

Common mistakes and best practices for Django projects

Building a machine learning product from vision to first customer

Running compute-heavy workloads on Amazon's virtual machines

Building a simple classifier with NLTK and machine learning

The hidden costs of building distributed systems when speed matters

Balancing the love of hacking with getting things done

Best practices for application logging in production systems

Guidelines for scaling web applications from small to high-traffic

How functional thinking changed my object-oriented programming style

How extending nginx cache duration improved site performance

Testing PHP database code with PHPUnit and DBUnit

Building a PHP project with a minimalist microframework

Breaking down difficult problems by isolating dependencies

Why Scala became one of my favorite languages