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A few years ago, I decided to live free from social media and television news. I wanted to eliminate sources of negative thoughts that I couldn’t act upon. To this day, I’m still using LinkedIn that I find mandatory for career purposes without having the app on my phone. In case I receive an important message, I will receive an email which is enough for me. My connections to the outside world are intentionally limited: my wife, my workmates, my friends and Hacker News. I know that I can count on them in a scenario I must acknowledge a very important news, and they never miss. I’ve chosen to focus primarily on the tech world, as it doesn’t induce stress and provides information relevant to my job and my happiness. ...

I’m working in an IT service company, where I’ve been introduced to a new project last year. The stack is not so boring, every services use Typescript with Hasura as a GraphQL API and PostgreSQL as a PaaS on GCP. All of the services were deployed across two environments on two different GKE clusters and a dedicated PostgreSQL instance. These clusters had each two nodes. With the costs of the Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine (with a total of 4 VMs where the nodes are installed), and Cloud SQL (2 PostgreSQL instances). The monthly billing was averaging 600 euros. ...

Why using Docker Compose for production is bad? OK, that’s a bit misleading, it’s not THAT bad. With compose, you are defining your services with a simple YAML file and you can pull images from your registry. So, with a good integration and a correct deploy script, you can have a good experience with Docker Compose on production. When I say, it’s bad, it’s because you are one command away from using Docker Swarm, a simple container orchestrator, defined for production usage. ...

Why I switched from AZERTY I’m french, I have been using AZERTY since my young age. My phone, my computer keyboards, and my laptop has the AZERTY layout, but I changed this 2 years ago for the US QWERTY layout. Most of my coworkers and friends think I’m a nerd and don’t understand the point of my change, but I will never go back again. Disadvantages Here is the AZERTY layout : ...