Can’t sell it? Repurpose it! It was around 4 years ago when I bought a used, slightly beat up Asus C300 Chromebook from a friend of mine for £50. It served me well, I installed Linux on it and used it to work on some side projects while commuting. However as time passed by, I slowly forgot about it and it ended up in a box, being put away. I always thought it’s a shame to just let it sit there,…
Keeping things simple When working on side projects I always try to keep things simple and focus on the important things at the beginning as delivering values is key. I don’t want to deal with clusters, HA, pipelines etc. because it’s more than alright to deploy to production from your laptop in the early days. In this particular example, the infrastructure is basically an RDS instance (no multi…
The plan Dealing with legacy code is never boring, especially if you want to change something fundamental in the app. We decided that it was time to detach the frontend application from the backend service. In the old setup we had a Django application responsible to serve the API endpoints + it served a static HTML page hosting the frontend application. Even though the separation wasn’t super…