Nikita Vakula articles - 17 total
Running QEMU VMs on ARM64: UEFI Requirements
In my previous notes, I've discussed how QEMU serves as a versatile and flexible tool for creating...
Local DNS Resolution for Docker Containers in Development
The challenge: service discovery in containers In modern backend development, most systems...
Introducing qcontroller: Declarative VM Management with QEMU and Go
Managing local virtual machines shouldn't require heavy tooling, brittle shell scripts, or overly...
QEMU QAPI Client for Go — Native Code-Gen Straight from QEMU
Ever glued together socat, raw JSON, and a prayer just to talk to QEMU from Go? I...
Automating Bridge + TAP Networking with a Go Binary (No Bash, No Fuss)
TL;DR: In my previous article, I manually set up Linux bridge + TAP networking for VMs....
How to customize PostgreSQL Docker Initialization the Right Way
Dockerizing Postgres is easy - until you need to initialize multiple databases with different dumps....
Setting Up VM Networking on Linux: Bridges, TAPs, and More
Introduction Working directly on your computer and trying out new configurations is...
Setting Up a Simple Two-Node Kubernetes Cluster in No Time
Kubernetes is now a crucial tool for developers. Regardless of the field of software development,...
QEMU networking on macOS
Introduction Setting up virtual machines (VMs) that can communicate with each other and...
Automating the Building of VMs with Packer
Introduction There are many reasons why one might need a VM, for example: Learning new...
Component Generation with Figma API: Bridging the Gap Between Development and Design
Introduction In today's fast-paced software development landscape, efficient workflows and...
Offscreen Rendering
Off-screen rendering or rendering to a texture, plays a crucial role in numerous scenarios within...
Simulating GPIO Sysfs Interface with FUSE and C++
Developing embedded systems often involves interacting with General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) pins...
Rendering list views on a web page efficiently: A technique to display big datasets
Recently, I needed to implement a web widget that displays a collection of items. In some cases, the...
Simplify networking with socat
In many cases, it's necessary to forward requests from one host to another. For instance, the...
FastAPI and Two-Factor Authentication
FastAPI is an amazing Python framework for backend development. There are many different web...
Building C++ projects: Know what you build, how you build it and where you build it.
Arguably, CMake is the standard tool to structure and build C++ projects. The tool is very easy and...