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The DevOps is dead, long live the DevOps!

The DevOps is dead, long live the DevOps!

Let's be clear, DevOps is just becoming out of control, everything is DevOps, or worst, DevSecOps, DevSecFinOps, DevOpsOps (sic). The original definition of the word is lost, and it is hurting badly a lot of jobs: Sysadmin, DBAs, SREs. Let's put things straight, We Love DevOps, but it's time to

It is Infrastructure as Code, not Infrastructure as YAML!

It is Infrastructure as Code, not Infrastructure as YAML!

Welcome back to our blog, after our summer break! We did one article per week for 51 weeks (yes, we know, almost a year), and we thought that a pause was necessary, in order to have some inspiration and stories to tell! So here we are: choosing a topic, and

Uptime Kuma, SQLite and Litestream!

Uptime Kuma, SQLite and Litestream!

How can you deploy a SQLite application on almost any cloud provider in a secure and reliable way!

Archlinux in Production?

Archlinux in Production?

Is archlinux viable in production? Why you should use it too? Is that better than Ubuntu? (YES!!!)

To Cloud or not to Cloud

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 everything * High Performance Systems * Crazy constraints apps Of course, you don't find this kind of setup in a small startup, mostly in big Corporations or Governmental Entities. And as you

Dhakira, the cloud-native Web Server or Why Hosting some static assets is still so complicated?

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 tell you a nice story! Static For the Win As you may know, we are huge fans of static site

Apache Airflow on Clever Cloud

Apache Airflow on Clever Cloud

During a recent interaction on Twitter [https://twitter.com/mtparet/status/1476569459762548738] (in French, sorry), some people were misbehaving and we were shocked to see the same story as usual: people are using software without understanding it (or reading the doc)! I blame a lot all these "ready-made" packages, like

Sysadmin/DevOps/SRE people, we are on the way to a massive pauperization of our jobs!

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 on the hiring part: Kalvad's Infrastructure Team (KIT™). The KIT™ has currently 2 members with me as the manager, and

How to handle a massive infrastructure problem

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 important to us. They are asking for help, as they have a major issue in their data center on some

You are software engineers, so COMPILE YOUR SOFTWARE

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 [https://www.beautiful.ai/player/-MToF5BZRnhHDSNdjfhX]), and I put inside a statement that some people, rightfully, were holding me accountable for: Docker images are slow because they are using old technologies! The

N8N on Clever Cloud

N8N on Clever Cloud

Introduction N8N [https://n8n.io] is an "Extendable workflow automation", or as I prefer to call it: the open source IFTTT. As you know, at Kalvad [https://kalvad.com], we are big fans of: * open source * selfhosted * automation Why? Because it gives us the power to deploy a software where