I have at my home's window a small experimental solar setup, consisting in one (sometimes two) 30W 18V solar panel, a rubbish MPPT controller, and a 12V 10A lead-acid battery. Once you set it up, you want to have metrics and stuff, right? So my next-thing-to-do was to find a way to collect power dat...

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What are microservices

A microservice architecture is a software architectural style in which an application or application stack is built and deployed as a collection of small, independent services which communicate among them through APIs using well-defined interfaces. Each service performs a sp...

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After having myself issues with the php-gd extension in some Docker images, and seeing that many answers around the web tend to be wrong or inaccurate, I decided to compile a guide for troubleshooting the functionality of this extension in community-based images of PHP 7+.

For demonstrative purpo...

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DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE - they are all approaches/methodologies in the world of software engineering and I.T. operations which focus on the efficient development, deployment and management of software applications. They emerged and evolved in the last decade to meet the changing needs of the software...

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• rabbitmq

A typical scenario you will encounter when working with a message broker is that, due to transient errors (network issues, degradation in dependent services, etc) you might not be able to consume a message and maintain the integrity of the operations during its processing phase. In these cases you m...

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