Hugo: External Redirects

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. ...

September 11, 2026 · 3 min · Yurii Rochniak

Load Testing Apollo Router

How we ran a load test for Apollo Router to figure out its limitations and performance gains compared to the legacy systems.

August 27, 2026 · 1 min · Yurii Rochniak

A Route to Apollo

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.

July 28, 2026 · 1 min · Yurii Rochniak

How do we use Terraform at Preply

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.

January 27, 2026 · 1 min · Yurii Rochniak

Testing Helm Charts Part II

This article is also available on Substack. This is a very basic example of using Helm Unittestas well as an example of the “test pyramid” discussed in the previous article. The code is available on GitHub. Structure We have two charts: fw-demo - a chart with our demo application monitoring - a library chart that applies some DataDog monitoring rules for the main chart. monitoring chart is a dependency. The main Chart.yaml looks like: ...

July 13, 2024 · 6 min · Yurii Rochniak