Blog Posts

Kubernetes Sidecar Config Drift

• Stian Øvrevåge
• Kubernetes

Last week, working on Signicat’s next generation cloud platform, I discovered that several individuals invented their own ways of mitigating what I now call Sidecar Configuration Drift.

Yak shaving - Photo drips for my mom

• Stian Øvrevåge
• For fun

TL;DR: I finally organized my photo archive and in an evening created a service to e-mail my mom a photo from the last 20 years every morning.

A side quest in API development, observability, Kubernetes and cloud with a hint of database

• Stian Øvrevåge
• Cloud , Database , Kubernetes , Monitoring

Quite often people ask me what I actually do. I have a hard time giving a short answer. Even to colleagues and friends in the industry.

Here I will try to show and tell how I spent an evening digging around in a system I helped build for a client.

End of 2020 rough database landscape

• Stian Øvrevåge
• Cloud , Database

There seems to exist a database for every niche, mood or emotion. And they seem to change just as fast.

How do you balance the urge for the new and shiny but without risking too much headache down the road?

This post is an attempt to lay out the rough landscape of databases that you might encounter or consider as of late 2020.

Mini-post: Down-scaling Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Stian Øvrevåge
• Cloud , Kubernetes , Azure , Aks

We discovered today that some implicit assumptions we had about AKS at smaller scales were incorrect.

Disk performance on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Part 1: Benchmarking

• Stian Øvrevåge
• Cloud , Kubernetes , Azure , Aks

Understanding the characteristics of disk performance of a platform might be more important than you think. If disk resources are not correctly matched to your workload, your performance will suffer and might lead you to incorrectly diagnose a problem as being related to CPU or memory.

Managed Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure (English)

• Stian Øvrevåge
• Cloud , Kubernetes , Azure , Aks

In this post we will set up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch using Azure CLI.

Managed Kubernetes på Microsoft Azure (Norwegian)

• Stian Øvrevåge
• Cloud , Kubernetes , Azure , Aks

I denne posten setter vi opp et Kubernetes cluster fra scratch ved bruk av Azure CLI.

Next generation monitoring with OpenTSDB

• Stian Øvrevåge
• Cloud , Monitoring

In this post we will provide a step by step guide on how to install a single-instance of OpenTSDB using the latest versions of the underlying technology, Hadoop and HBase. We will also provide some background on the state of existing monitoring solutions.