Kubernetes Operations Survey 2023

Annual Kubernetes Survey by CatOps It is the second time I run this survey. You can find the previous year’s results here. You can find the raw data in the Google Sheets. You can also read this article on Substack. Introduction This year, I ran this survey for two months: from the 14th of March to the 18th of May, and gathered 122 responses in total. Yet, I must admit that I only promoted this survey for a month....

June 2, 2023 · 9 min · Yurii Rochniak

Types of Technical Interviews

Initially, I wrote this article in Ukrainian, but I decided to translate it to English and share it with a broader audience. I also added some suggestions from the comments and removed some regional-specific references, but overall the text is mostly unchanged compared to the original. Why am I even writing this? I participate in the hiring process for my company. Also, I’ve gone through quite a few interviews in my life....

April 8, 2023 · 11 min · Yurii Rochniak

My Notes from Fosdem & Config Management Camp 2023

My Notes from Fosdem & Config Management Camp Read on Substack. Sup! It’s been a while. So, both Fosdem and Config Management Camp conferences are back offline. Thus, I’ve spent a long weekend at my usual Belgian conferences. Here I want to share some notes with you from the talks I attended. I’m lazy, so I didn’t take notes in real-time. On one hand, this may be a reason these notes be not super accurate....

February 9, 2023 · 12 min · Yurii Rochniak

Building a CLI application in Go: Part 0

Building a CLI application in Go: Part 0 Intro I have written a tiny CLI app that can update the storage class of objects in an AWS S3 Bucket. To be completely honest, this tool is rather useless in the wild. You can achieve the same results natively with AWS S3 Lifecycle policies. However, this app is my opportunity to talk about writing CLI applications in Go as well as speculate about pet projects in general....

September 2, 2022 · 6 min · Yurii Rochniak

A Letter to Tech Community

Dear tech community, there is a lot of information about Russian invasion in Ukraine right now. This is truly important to spread only the information that came from trustworthy sources! Also, NEVER SHARE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT UKRAINIAN FORCES! There are ongoing fishing attacks on Ukraine right now. I bet as tech people you know pretty well, how to deal with that. However, you can share information about how protect themselves to your less experienced friends and family members....

February 26, 2022 · 2 min · Yurii Rochniak