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.NET Days in Zurich, Shift Conf in Split

Posted on 11 June 2018

Last week was a quite interesting week in terms of travel. First I got to visit Zurich again after a while for .NET Day and then I got to visit the Croatian coastal town Split for the first time for Shift Conference. .NET Days in Zurich When I used to work at Adobe, part of my team was based in Basel, Switzerland. As a result, I used to visit Basel, Zurich and other Swiss cities quite often. Read More →

Istio 101 (0.8.0) on GKE

Posted on 7 June 2018

In one of my previous posts, I showed how to install Istio on minikube and deploy the sample BookInfo app. A new Istio version is out (0.8.0) with a lot of changes, especially changes on traffic management, which made my steps in the previous post a little obsolete. In this post, I want to show how to install Istio 0.8.0 on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), deploy the sample BookInfo app and show some of the add-ons and traffic routing. Read More →

Kubernetes Istio Google Cloud Platform

Codemotion in Amsterdam, Devoxx in London

Posted on 29 May 2018

After my trip in Istanbul, I visited my parents in Nicosia, Cyprus for a long weekend. Then, I stopped by in Amsterdam for Codemotion before coming back to London for Devoxx 4 cities in 4 countries in 1 week was exhausting but also a lot of fun in many ways. Codemotion Amsterdam Amsterdam is almost a second home to me nowadays. There’s a great tech scene and a lot of tech events throughout the year, as a result, I end up visiting Amsterdam at least 2–3 times a year. Read More →

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Istanbul: The city where the East and the West meet

Posted on 20 May 2018

Istanbul is one of those crazy dynamic cities with friendly people, amazing history, great shopping and above all, a food heaven. Naturally, I was excited to be back for Java Day Istanbul conference. I came a day early to meet with a partner and visit a customer. They had lots of questions on Kubernetes and hybrid-cloud. It was quite useful for me to hear about their challenges about moving to the cloud and propose some solutions. Read More →

Conferences Istio Kubernetes Travels

Manchester after 20 years

Posted on 11 May 2018

After my time in Beijing, I flew back to the UK but instead of London, I went to Manchester for IPExpo conference. The first time I visited Manchester was 20 years ago. I was a 15 year old high school kid and I visited my great aunt and uncle one summer with my sister. I remember I had such a good time back then. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to visit Manchester again and it was quite nostalgic for me to be back. Read More →

Kubernetes Travels

First time in China

Posted on 8 May 2018

Visiting a new country is always extra special for me and a couple of weeks ago, I got to do just that and visited Beijing, China for the first time. After TDC in Floripa, I flew to Beijing for QCon conference and for a Google Developer Group (GDG) meetup. It was the first time for me in China (my 48th country!) and first time speaking at QCon, so I was naturally excited. Read More →

Trip Report: TDC in Florianópolis

Posted on 25 April 2018

Last week, I was in my favorite country, Brazil, for The Developer Conference (TDC) in Florianópolis (aka Floripa). I went to Brazil for the first time last July. Since then, I’ve been there 3 more times and I gradually fell in love with it. People are friendly, their BBQ is amazing, scenery is beautiful. I always have a good time in Brazil and this time wasn’t an exception. In all previous times, I was mainly in Sao Paulo for a conference followed by a short trip to Rio (my favorite city! Read More →

Istio 101 with Minikube

Posted on 24 April 2018

As part of my Istio 101 talk, I like to show demos locally (because conference Wifi can be unreliable) and Minikube is perfect for this. Minikube gives you a local Kubernetes cluster on top of which you can install Istio. In this post, I want to show how to do Istio 101 on Minikube. More specifically, I will show how to install Istio, deploy a sample application, install add-ons like Prometheus, Grafana, Zipkin, ServiceGraph and change traffic routes dynamically. Read More →

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Trip Report: Codemotion in Rome

Posted on 19 April 2018

Last week, I was in one of my favorite cities, Rome, for Codemotion conference. There are many cities to see in the world and normally, I do not like to revisit cities that I’ve been before. However, Rome is a great exception. It was my fifth visit there over the years and it was still as exciting as the first time. I also found out that Google has a small office in Rome, so I paid a quick visit next morning before attending the conference. Read More →

Kubernetes Istio Containers Trip Report Rome

How to run Windows Containers on Compute Engine

Posted on 3 April 2018

Container virtualization is a rapidly evolving technology that can simplify how you deploy and manage distributed applications. When people discuss containers, they usually mean Linux-based containers. This makes sense, because native Linux kernel features like cgroups introduced the idea of resource isolation, eventually leading to containers as we know them today. For a long time, you could only containerize Linux processes, but Microsoft introduced support for Windows-based containers in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10. Read More ↗︎

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