Tech notes of hands-on software architects

After a short break from blogging, we are back with fresh insights from our recent presentation at the Poznań Java User Group about the practical DevOps approach.

As HandsOnArchitects marks its first anniversary, we're excited to revisit our top-performing blog posts that have resonated with our amazing community.

Knot.x serves as a pivotal integration layer, seamlessly blending content and style from Adobe Experience Manager with data from various sources to create sophisticated personalized websites, revolutionizing the construction and performance of digital platforms while offering flexibility and cost savings, making it a widely adopted solution in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) projects.

In the intricate world of Kubernetes, the management and utilization of secrets within pods and containers demand careful consideration. In this article, we delve into available options, shedding light on how pods and containers are impacted across different scenarios.

In this post, we will share 5 practical tips and tools that help us manage time and keep our productivity high.

This post shows how to create a multi-component Helm chart and generate labels for each component

This blogpost presents an idea of using simplified environments for project demonstration purposes.

During my last presentation at AdaptTo() 2023, I mentioned reference content-centric architectures and how they leverage caching. In this blog post, I will expand on this topic.

This blogpost will present you an idea for a short, low-effort knowledge sharing sessions that we often use to spread out ideas and lessons learned among engineers.

This blog post is a short invitation for this year's AdaptTo session that Maciej Laskowski will be a speaker at.

In this brief note, we will share a simple way to migrate a website that uses Let's Encrypt certificate from one Kubernetes cluster to another with no downtime.

WebSight is an event streaming platform built by fully agile micro teams where every engineer is a technical lead.

This time we will show you a simple trick we found useful when setting up local or ephemeral k8s environments with a valid domain that supports multiple Ingress entries.

We will explain how the Pulsar client pre-fetch mechanism can impact the Pulsar learning curve.

Docker Desktop is a great tool that helps to save a lot of time during local development. However, it is not perfect and can break down in ways that are hard to restore, especially when you are using an M1 Apple silicon processor...

The Apache Software Foundation contribution guide to add Apple M1 | M2 laptops support for Docker

Technology Radar is a phenomenon that helps visualize the technology stack. Let's dive into how the tool may help to harness the tech stack at various levels of business.

Recently, we were discussing a post from Kent Beck on Code Reviews. Here are our thoughts.

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