sysadmin Uptime Kuma, SQLite and Litestream! How can you deploy a SQLite application on almost any cloud provider in a secure and reliable way!
archlinux Archlinux in Production? Is archlinux viable in production? Why you should use it too? Is that better than Ubuntu? (YES!!!)
selfhosting To Cloud or not to Cloud Kalvad is very present in the Middle East, especially on certain topics: Fixers: we are the people who can fix everythingHigh Performance SystemsCrazy constraints appsOf course, you don't find this
crystal Dhakira, the cloud-native Web Server or Why Hosting some static assets is still so complicated? Let's be clear here, I'm French, so I'm complaining a lot! And some people are saying: Loïc, you should not be so negative! Where are your solutions?So let me
clever cloud Apache Airflow on Clever Cloud During a recent interaction on Twitter (in French, sorry), some people were misbehaving and we were shocked to see the same story as usual: people are using software without understanding
devops Sysadmin/DevOps/SRE people, we are on the way to a massive pauperization of our jobs! If you follow us on LinkedIn, you should have seen that we are hiring a lot of people these days, especially in one department that is not the most active
ansible Security is a never-ending process, not a validation step! As you may know, if you are familiar with our blog, most people are considering us as IT's firefighters (and don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of
sysadmin How to handle a massive infrastructure problem Tonight is one of these nights. It's 04:30 a.m. and I receive an emergency call (less than 3 hours after going to bed) from this customer which is
selfhosted Using Open source software is the only way to have a sustainable business I'm convinced for multiple years that open source is the future, however, after almost 10 years as a C-Level manager, my discourse changed a bit! Let's be clear, originally, my
warp10 You are software engineers, so COMPILE YOUR SOFTWARE Few weeks ago, I did a conference about Kubernetes/Docker (in French, sorry, but the slides are here), and I put inside a statement that some people, rightfully, were holding
startup Surviving guide for a tech startup aka How to properly bootstrap your startup - Part 2 We highly recommend that you read the first part of this article: Stop building sandcastles aka How to properly bootstrap your startup - Part 1 IntroductionYour startup has a name,
startup Stop building sandcastles aka How to properly bootstrap your startup - Part 1 IntroductionAt Kalvad, we are nerds, and proud to be, but it's not because we are nerds, that we are asocial. The problem we all faced whenever we say we work
security Cheap DDoS on-demand or How to properly load test your application! We decline all responsibility in case of any accidents following the usage of this tool! 2 weeks ago, we published an article The future of the internet is static! AKA
scale The future of the internet is static! AKA how we scaled to 10 million users in a minute without crashing We usually define our company as a pure tech agency, but most of our customers are treating us like IT firefighters: they call us when the s**t is hitting
automation N8N on Clever Cloud IntroductionN8N is an "Extendable workflow automation", or as I prefer to call it: the open source IFTTT. As you know, at Kalvad, we are big fans of: open sourceselfhostedautomationWhy? Because
ops The Automation Paradox Automation is eating the world, but it's also one of the hardest task to begin with, especially in big corporations.
