Nočnica Mellifera

Nočnica Mellifera @nocnica

About: Actually the pug from Dune (1984)

Location:
Portland, Oregon
Joined:
Apr 30, 2019

Nočnica Mellifera
articles - 148 total

The Sub-prime Crisis of Notifications

Or, how we’re destroying users’ trust, and how to get it back. Check out the first post in this...

Learn More 6 0Sep 15 '22

Building a Great UX Outside of your App

Recently I had a chance to talk to DevOps Minneapolis about the true nature of user experience. The...

Learn More 4 0Sep 7 '22

Effortless MongoDB Atlas With Opta

*Originally posted on Run[x] Blog Do you use MongoDB Atlas in your application stack? This post...

Learn More 4 0Nov 30 '21

I can't believe you're not adding observability

I want to talk to you about observability, the art of understanding errors and performance of your technology stack by implementing monitoring and some kind of tool to view that monitoring.

Learn More 17 0Oct 27 '21

K8s Pods: Image tags vs. Digest

Image tags are a common source of frustration with the management of Kubernetes pods. How many times have I seen a question like this

Learn More 5 0Oct 27 '21

[Video] Running your cloud locally: Opta's Open source Infrastructure as Code

In this quick video, Sachin demonstrates how you can run Opta locally before you deploy to AWS.

Learn More 4 0Oct 11 '21

Can we build a better Terraform? The story of Opta

Enter RunX, a small team focused on trying to build a fully modern tool for deploying distributed workloads. We're a small team of just 8, laser focused on reducing toil for cloud engineers.

Learn More 15 2Sep 29 '21

Can Kubernetes Save You Money?

cover image: detail from Hieronymus Bosch - Death and the Miser Kubernetes is not known as a...

Learn More 15 0Sep 24 '21

Tesla Bot is a great example of how NOT to develop a product

Here’s how you tell your boss his autonomous robot isn’t happening next year.

Learn More 7 0Sep 22 '21

Embrace Remote Work or Perish

I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about how RunX has succeeded by embracing remote work, and why other startups will need to let go of locality if they don’t want to limit their growth.

Learn More 8 1Sep 16 '21

How to Deploy Wordpress to Kubernetes on AWS

This article analyzes available paths for migrating a WordPress website to AWS

Learn More 8 3Sep 14 '21

DevOps Is Not Automation

DevOps is more a cultural shift than a tools shift. Integration of teams and shared learning are more important than CI/CD automation or observability tools.

Learn More 46 4Sep 8 '21

Do you love programming?

I just want to ask you personally, do you love programming? Or is it more of just a job.

Learn More 3 1Sep 2 '21

Is your microservice architecture just a monolith wearing a bunch of smaller trench coats?

It’s possible to end up with the worst of both worlds here.

Learn More 8 0Aug 31 '21

I made a list of Awesome Kubernetes libraries, what should I add?

The focus of this list is for Kubernetes developers looking to build production applications.

Learn More 6 6Aug 26 '21

What sites do you use to share your coding portfolio?

I’m looking for a way for my students to share their work, and instead of just posting to github they’d like a pretty visual way to post their dev portfolio.

Learn More 5 2Aug 25 '21

What makes a 10x engineer?

I'm curious what you think makes a truly valuable team member.

Learn More 10 2Aug 20 '21

I'll be speaking at CodeLand!

I was so happy to see my talk about the path from tech support to development get accepted.

Learn More 15 1Aug 20 '21

How do you make time for your non-dev life?

Having a life outside of work doesn't happen on its own. It has to be built intentionally.

Learn More 7 0Aug 17 '21

Should you transition to Golang?

I'm curious how you feel, do you think services should be rewritten in Golang?

Learn More 7 6Aug 10 '21

Do Developers Still Use PHP (and why that’s the wrong question to ask)

image by Camilo Sanchez, sharable via 9Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported...

Learn More 49 26Aug 5 '21

Is It Time For Kubernetes Yet?

It's kind of like buying a bandsaw.

Learn More 12 1Aug 3 '21

How important is the NON technical interview?

Nobody wants to hire the new office jerk.

Learn More 6 0Aug 2 '21

Deploying Jenkins on Google Cloud

In this post I'll demonstrate how can easily deploy jenkins on GCP using opta. I will also walk you through how you can tune various parameters to using opta itself to for scaling your jenkins deployment.

Learn More 15 0Jul 29 '21

The Resume Tip That Changed My Career

Talk about your achievements, not your duties.

Learn More 43 2Jul 26 '21

Why Do Companies Ask For Passion?

Hint: it's overrated.

Learn More 113 52Jul 19 '21

Do developers still use PHP?

I'm curious to hear from the up-and-coming readers of DEV: are you still using PHP? If so, what do you use it for?

Learn More 40 52Jul 16 '21

How to Deploy Your First Kubernetes Cluster

Opta is a deployment tool developed by RUN [X] and promises to create a fully operational K8S Cluster and launch your microservices without any DevOps headaches. To provide an agnostic approach to the different cloud providers it uses Terraform to deploy new resources to your infrastructure. To make use of the different services that the cloud providers offer it comes with its own modules to directly connect your microservices with external databases, caches, or object stores.

Learn More 26 0Jul 15 '21

What's your morning routine?

I'd like to know what you do in the morning to get your body and mind started

Learn More 8 5Jul 9 '21

Is DEV doomed?

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." And this article is no exception.

Learn More 30 7Jul 9 '21