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By Piotr Gaczkowski, IOD Expert What comes to mind when you think of great design? Is it craftsmanship? A certain elegance in the design itself? Do you admire the designer or the makers? Whatever your answer, one thing is certain: you need to encounter the design to appreciate it. Most of the great creations we […]
By Piotr Gaczkowski, IOD Expert When I first started writing for IOD, my belief was that writing was optional for engineers. I’ve changed my mind. Even though your main responsibility involves solving problems and writing code, prose is something you can indulge in. Most don’t and that’s fine. But I’ve learned there are many benefits […]
By Piotr Gaczkowski, IOD Expert There are a few parallels one can draw between folks in IT and musicians or other artists. Paul Graham addressed some of them in his famous book, Hackers & Painters. For instance, both groups create something out of (seemingly) nothing; we leave a trace of our personality in our creations; […]
By Piotr Gaczkowski, IOD Expert Are you using Ansible for deployments? Perhaps you started recently using it after reading this article on it? Even though it’s a powerful tool, Ansible comes with some quirks. Knowing how to deal with its peculiarities can improve your experience and lower the time, and therefore costs, of debugging. Testing […]
By Piotr Gaczkowski, IOD Expert For regular folk, there are two operating systems available for computers: Mac or Windows. But for technical folk, things are much more colorful. Whether on servers, on Virtual Machines, or our private computers, we run OSes such as Linux, various BSD versions, Solaris, or even other, more exotic systems, like […]
By Piotr Gaczkowski, IOD Expert Writing articles and blog posts is a lot like writing code. First, you nurture an idea in your mind. Perhaps, the idea came to you in the shower, or maybe it was the result of long and focused consideration. Either way, you’re now ready to share it with the world. […]
After attending his 6th AWS re:Invent 2017 last month, cloud evangelist and founder of IOD Ofir Nachmani made the claim that AWS is still the only serious cloud player. What keeps AWS a market leader, he said, is their focus on not just the near-term future, but the long-term. But what can we expect in […]
By Piotr Gaczkowski, IOD expert Almost every modern programming language comes with some testing support built-in. Yet, there aren’t so many frameworks for testing servers and deployments. “Wait a second,” you might be thinking right now. “Servers and deployments aren’t code. They should be provisioned by IT operations, not tested along the application lifecycle, right?” […]