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Why would you build an open source FTP server in Rust? – Podcast

Why build an open-source FTP server in Rust? Sometimes, I must admit I’m a little dazzled by all the languages, frameworks and stuff our engineers work with. So, when our guest of today explained to me some of the intriguing aspects of the language we will be discussing in this episode I had to stretch my mind a little. I managed and could follow his explanation. And I found a great topic for this podcast. In the episode, we explore the Rust programming language and our first open-source code in…

Why would you build an open source FTP server in Rust? – Podcast

Site Reliability Engineering; that’s music to my ears!

Peter Paul van de Beek, Peter Brouwers, on 10-09-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Agile Innovation devops SRE Software Development Operations Site Reliability Engineering SLI SLO SLA

Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, is seen by a lot of people as the next logical step in developing DevOps capabilities. SRE takes concepts from software engineering and puts them to use in an operations context. Over the last 3 years, we have been experimenting with SRE approaches and gradually integrating them into our DevOps way of working. In this episode, we share the experience we gained on our journey. Guests Bart Enkelaar; Software Engineer and SRE advocate in bol.com and external speaker and friend of the show (SRE during…

Site Reliability Engineering; that’s music to my ears!

Dealing with Technical Debt – an experiment

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 10-12-2019
Category: Podcast Tags: Technical Debt Software Development Experiment

One of the aspects that keep popping up in software development: Technical Debt. Some created on purpose, for example, to get features into production fast. Some just came into existence… So, what is Technical Debt? And how to fight it. According to the definition* it can be compared to monetary debt. If technical debt is not repaid, it can accumulate ‘interest’, making it harder to implement changes later on. A couple of weeks ago George approached us and said, it might be an interesting topic to discuss because in my team an…