Technical insights and best practices for DevOps & Infrastructure
Microservices aren't a silver bullet; they're a complex trade-off between agility and operational chaos. This guide explores the critical patterns—API Gateways, Circuit Breakers, and Service Discovery—needed to survive the transition in 2019, specifically within the context of Nordic network constraints.
Stop SSH-ing into your servers. In this deep dive, we explore why Pull-based GitOps workflows using Flux and Helm are the only scalable way to manage Kubernetes clusters in compliance-heavy Norwegian environments.
Monoliths are safe. Microservices are chaos. Learn the battle-tested patterns (Gateway, Circuit Breaker, Discovery) to tame your distributed system, and why your infrastructure choice determines your survival.
Stop chasing the 'Netflix' dream blindly. Here is a battle-tested guide to microservices architecture that prioritizes stability, latency, and GDPR compliance, specifically tailored for the Nordic infrastructure landscape.
Stop waking up at 3 AM for false positives. A battle-hardened guide to implementing Prometheus, Grafana, and actionable alerting on Linux systems, with a focus on Norwegian data sovereignty.
Microservices solve scalability but introduce networking hell. Learn how to deploy Istio 1.1 on Kubernetes for observability and mTLS, and why underlying hardware latency matters more than your mesh config.
Serverless is the buzzword of 2019, but AWS Lambda isn't the only game in town. We explore running OpenFaaS on high-performance KVM instances to get the best of both worlds: developer velocity and infrastructure control.
Default Linux settings are killing your API performance. In this deep dive, we strip down the kernel, optimize Nginx upstreams, and discuss why hardware isolation matters for low-latency implementations in the Nordic region.
Running stateless apps on Kubernetes is easy. Databases? That's a different beast. Learn how to bridge the gap between StatefulSets and operational reality using Operators, and why underlying NVMe storage matters more than you think.
Vendor lock-in is the silent killer of TCO. Discover how to architect a compliant, high-performance hybrid infrastructure using local Norwegian VDS for core data and hyperscalers for burst compute—without bleeding budget on egress fees.
Alert fatigue and false positives are killing your DevOps culture. Learn how to deploy a modern Prometheus and Grafana stack on KVM to visualize real bottlenecks like CPU steal time and I/O wait.
Public cloud serverless functions offer convenience at the cost of control and predictable billing. In this technical deep-dive, we explore deploying a self-hosted serverless stack using OpenFaaS on NVMe-backed VPS instances to achieve sub-millisecond latency within Norway.
Serverless doesn't mean 'no servers'—it means 'someone else's servers'. Cut the latency and the AWS bill by deploying OpenFaaS on NVMe-backed infrastructure. Here is the 2019 blueprint for sovereign FaaS in Norway.
It is April 2019. Your Nagios checks are green, but customers are churning. We dissect the critical difference between monitoring uptime and observing system behavior, featuring Prometheus, ELK, and the infrastructure required to run them.
A battle-tested guide to slashing build times in 2019. We dissect the hidden I/O bottlenecks in GitLab CI/Jenkins, implement aggressive Docker caching, and explain why your choice of Norwegian VPS infrastructure dictates your deployment speed.
Move beyond the buzzword. We explore real-world Edge Computing use cases—from MQTT aggregators to GDPR-compliant proxying—using standard VPS instances in Oslo to beat the speed of light limits of centralized clouds.
A battle-hardened look at microservices architecture in 2019. We strip away the hype to focus on patterns that prevent downtime: API Gateways, Circuit Breakers, and the infrastructure needed to run them in Norway.
RAID is not a backup. Snapshots are not a strategy. In this deep-dive, we dismantle common disaster recovery myths and build a battle-tested failover architecture using CentOS 7, MariaDB replication, and Norwegian infrastructure resilience.
Stop relying on passive ping checks. Learn how to build a proactive, metrics-driven monitoring stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and accurate I/O benchmarks on Norwegian infrastructure.
Stop overpaying for idle compute. Learn how to architect a GDPR-compliant multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, reducing TCO while keeping critical data securely in Norway.
Forget the cloud buzzwords. Real edge computing is about physics, latency, and data residency. Here is how to architect low-latency infrastructure in Norway using KVM, Nginx, and common sense.
It works on localhost, but production is crawling. Discover how to implement robust Application Performance Monitoring (APM) using Prometheus, Grafana, and core Linux utilities to diagnose bottlenecks in 2019.
Waiting for builds kills momentum. Discover how to optimize Jenkins and GitLab CI pipelines using Docker layer caching, correct npm strategies, and why infrastructure I/O is the silent bottleneck.
Monoliths are safe; microservices are chaos. From Circuit Breakers to Service Mesh, we dissect the architecture patterns that actually work in 2019, specifically for Norwegian infrastructure requirements.
Vendor lock-in is the silent killer of agility. Discover how to architect a true multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform, HAProxy, and strategic Norwegian infrastructure to minimize latency and ensure GDPR compliance.
A battle-hardened look at Kubernetes networking in 2019. We dissect CNI choices, the iptables vs. IPVS debate, and why underlying hardware latency defines your cluster's stability.
Stop relying on 5-minute averages. A battle-hardened guide to implementing real-time metrics with Prometheus and Grafana on high-performance KVM architecture.
Uptime is a vanity metric. If your API latency spikes to 500ms, you are effectively down. A battle-hardened guide to setting up Prometheus, Grafana, and detecting 'noisy neighbors' in 2019.
A battle-hardened guide to Kubernetes networking mechanics. We dissect the journey of a packet from Ingress to Pod, compare CNI plugins like Calico and Flannel, and explain why underlying hardware dictates your cluster's latency.
Manual deployments are the root cause of infrastructure drift. Learn how to implement a rigid GitOps workflow using Kubernetes and GitLab CI, ensuring your Norwegian infrastructure remains compliant and stable.