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Mastering Blue/Green Deployments in AWS ECS: A Developer’s Guide 
 Blue/green deployment is a powerful technique for minimizing downtime and risk during application updates. AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) offers native support for this deployment strategy through its built-in blue/green deployment type. I’ll walk you through implementing blue/green deployments in AWS ECS, with…
When troubleshootings systems, it is incredibly helpful (or even absolutely necessary) to view the authenticated user associated to any log lines. 
 One can use Mapped Diagnostic Context (MDC) to the rescue here. MDC provides a way to enrich log messages with information that could be unavailable in the scope where the logging actually occurs but that can be indeed useful to better track the…
I’ve recently been working on a Flutter app for my work at Cino . 
 When I tried to run my app on my iPhone, I noticed the debugging features (such as hot-reloading, a real game-changer by the way) did not work and the following error was logged: 
 
 On iOS 14+, local network broadcast in apps need to be declared in the app’s Info.plist. Debug and profile Flutter apps…
I am a Software Engineer currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 
 My focus is on creating high-quality, maintainable software. Something I’ve noticed over the years is that I’m much more product-minded than a typical engineer, mainly stemming from my involvement in various startups. 
 I love learning about new technologies. When it comes to programming languages, I…
Welcome to my new personal website. Special thanks to Bart Fokker for the inspiration and Hidde van der Ploeg for the design input. 
 If I have something interesting to share I will write a blog about it, permitted I have time and I feel like it 😉.