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From Devops to DevSecOps!

"... If you do so, you will be hacked, and you will bring shame to your entire company or department. We all want to be on TV someday, but there are better ways to go about that." Kubernetes: Up and Running. Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns, and Joe Beda Unless using such

Backing up elasticsearch indices with curator & minio!

Nowadays, Log management becomes more and more important especially in distributed and microservices architecture. A variety of solutions exist in the market, both commercial and open source! Yet elastic stack is one of the widely used, easy to set up and powerful log aggregation & management platform. Once everything is green,

Docker security scanning using Microscanner (in Jenkins & Gitlab CI)!

Containers are nowadays everywhere. In this day and age, either you're using Docker or considering adopting it. Containers are lightweight and provide a consistent & portable software environment for applications to easily run and scale anywhere. They've made a huge impact on the way we architect, develop and ship our software.

A look into Spring Cloud Gateway!

If you're (or thinking of) using microservices, you should then be familiar, or at least bumped into the API gateway pattern. This pattern is described with great details by Chris Richardson at microservices.io. An API gateway acts as a single entry point into a system and allows to centralize

Sentiment analysis example using FastText

Have you ever wondered how, just after posting a status about a hotel, mentioning a page on a comment or recommending a product to your friend on Messenger, Facebook starts showing you ads about it?! Well, I can assure you there's no magic behind it, it's just Facebook (and many

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