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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鈥檙e 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鈥檒l 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鈥檛 an option for me, because I couldn鈥檛 boot into older kernels as well. Luckily, it鈥檚 easy to overcome this whole situation with a LiveUSB stick and a couple of terminal commands. ...
You can also read this article on Substack. For many years now I spent the beginning of February in Belgium, first at FOSDEM in Brussels and later at CfgMgmt Camp in Ghent. Two years ago I shared some notes from the conferences, and I want to do so again. But first, let me tell you why I love each of these conferences. Frankly, I鈥檝e heard many concerns about the two: rooms being too crowded, logistics too chaotic, and many topics too outdated. Yet, partially this is why I love them. Both FOSDEM and CfgMgmt Camp are community-driven conferences that truly feel like events organized for enthusiasts by enthusiasts. Just to put it into perspective: both rooms on Nix and retro computing were full. ...