Sander Knape

The first post in this series argued that AI is moving engineering up the stack, away from implementation and toward systems, architecture, and governance.

The previous post argued that AI is moving engineering up the stack, shifting effort from writing code to designing systems and governing software in production.

The debate about AI and software development is stuck on the wrong question.

Terraform users will likely be familiar with “data source will be read during apply” messages that may appear in the plan output.

Getting started with setting up proper monitoring dashboards for your application and infrastructure can be challenging.

There are many ways to improve the developer experience of deploying infrastructure into the Cloud.

GitHub Actions is a component of GitHub that allows you to create automated workflows.

Serverless technology is getting more popular by the day.

The popularity of centralized platform teams is rising.

Last year AWS released a new iteration of their API Gateway product: HTTP APIs.

There are a few reasons that I love my job.

Performing (automated) tests on pull requests is a powerful mechanism to reduce the feedback loop on code changes.

I’ve been blogging for close to four years now.

Last year November GitHub released GitHub Actions, a CI/CD solution build on top of GitHub’s Source Code Management.

Hosting static websites is great.

The most exciting time of the year for AWS Enthusiasts is upon us.

It hasn’t been that long since it was normal to request compute capacity at some operations department within your organization.

How do you properly use an SSH key in a Dockerfile?

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a new framework for defining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by AWS.

I recently blogged about automated deployments to Kubernetes using GitLab.

In recent years Kubernetes has quickly gained a lot of popularity and it currently has huge momentum.

In this blog post we’ll go through the steps of creating an automated deployment pipeline for Kubernetes using GitLab.

Yesterday, AWS announced the release of an important and much-wanted new feature for S3: blocking the creation of public S3 buckets on an account-wide.

It is still very common to develop an application locally on a laptop/desktop before pushing it to a production-like environment.

It’s been close to two years since I started working with AWS CloudFormation, the Infrastructure as Code solution by and for AWS.

Serverless is a relatively new term.

AWS Secrets Manager is a service recently released designed to make the management of secrets easier.

Secret management is one of those security topics that is often an after-thought while designing systems.

Serverless applications are everywhere these days.

AWS API Gateway is a managed service from Amazon Web Services that allows you to easily create an API endpoint.

CloudFormation is the AWS product for Infrastructure as Code.

I’ve written about serverless architectures before (a serverless website in S3 and dynamic image generation with Lambda).

Yesterday, AWS released CloudFormation StackSets.

ReactJS is a Javascript library for building user interfaces.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a very powerful concept.

Maintaining a web server for your website is not ideal.

The combination of API Gateway and Lambda is very powerful.

Did you ever write your own authentication service?

Are your SSH log files flooding with failing login attempts?

I have been running my blog for a few months now on a DigitalOcean droplet.

Do you write integration tests?

If you maintain your own server or servers with SSL certicates, you might know how annoying it can be to keep those certificates up to date.

Nomad is a distributed, multi-datacenter scheduler for containers, virtual machines and more.

Setting up SSL for your server may seem like a daunting task.