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The Why The majority of technical and article-worthy work I do happens at my daily job. I don’t think this would sound surprising to anyone. Luckily, my current employer is also quite welcoming when it comes to writing technical articles. Obviously, these articles then go to the corporate blog, which is fair. However, this made me think, how do I link those articles to my personal blog properly? Previously, I would just link those articles somewhere on the About page labeled as “external articles” and whatnot. Obviously, no one would find them there. Apparently, I am not the only one who stumbled upon this question. I found a couple of resources online on how to enable external redirects in Hugo, such as “External Redirects with Hugo” by Nick Herrig, and this request on the Hugo support forum. ...
How we ran a load test for Apollo Router to figure out its limitations and performance gains compared to the legacy systems.
This article, focuses on the migration to Apollo Router. If you’re planning a migration, you may want to stick to the end of this article. Hopefully, it could help you to avoid some pitfalls we stepped into along the way.
Infrastructure-as-code provides many benefits beyond the reproducibility only. In this article, we’ll walk through the infrastructure-as-code setup at Preply, how it came to be, decisions we made, and challenges we encountered along the way.
This should have happened to me someday, and it finally did. I got Kernel panic on my Fedora 43 workstation. Apparently, a software update went south, and the PC was turned off before it properly finished. The general advice would be to boot from a previous kernel and regenerate everything. Unfortunately, this wasn’t an option for me, because I couldn’t boot into older kernels as well. Luckily, it’s easy to overcome this whole situation with a LiveUSB stick and a couple of terminal commands. ...