FAUN: The Best Stories of February
It’s been a while since we checked in! We bring good news to our readers — we’re officially back with our “Monthly Best Stories of FAUN.” We hope you’re as thrilled as we are about this latest development.
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This edition brings you The Best Stories of February.
Docker, Containers & Confusions by Chirag Modi: In this article, Chirag discusses the evolution of Containers, Kubernetes, and the related technologies around them. He disclosed that there is usually a lot of confusion around Docker and kubernetes and the purpose of the article was to help readers understand them better. It’s quite a read, but by the end of them, your questions about Docker, kubernetes, and their related technologies will be answered. Read it here
Seven things that make Kotlin awesome by Logeshvar L: If you’re curious about Kotlin and have been wondering why it’s the next best language to learn, then this article is for you. Logeshvar highlights seven (7) reasons to learn the Kotlin language despite Java already solving everything. So, if you’re ready to say goodbye to NullPointerExceptions and embrace better null safety, read this article.
The connection between Docker containers by Ivan Polovyi: This actual tutorial by Ivan shows you how to configure the connection between Docker containers. Since Docker is a valuable tool in developing software, it’s essential to understand the relationship between its containers. By the end of this tutorial, you should understand how to connect applications running in different Docker containers. Read here
How to pass configurations to Spring App running on Docker Container by Ivan Polovyi: An author having more than one story entry is no new to us, bravo Ivan. In this other tutorial, Ivan shows us how to pass configurations to the spring app on Docker. He helps us understand how convenient this process is as we do not have to repackage our code and rebuild an image that saves time — which is every developer’s dream come true. Read the complete tutorial here.
3 Most Valuable DevOps Certifications You Need in 2022 by Neil Shah:
“What do developers need?” If your answer is “a 100k and above per annum salary,” then you’re correct. Neil uses recent statistics to convince us why DevOps is the most demanding and highest-paying profession right now. This article shares the three most challenging and valuable certifications he thinks developers should pursue after having some experience in the DevOps field. Find what these certifications are here.
5 DevOps Tools to Level Up Your Kubernetes by Logan Land: Developers are always looking for tools to improve their efficiency and save time. Logan shares five tools developers can use to level up their Kubernetes journey, irrespective of whether they are just getting started or deep in Kubernetes. Want to know what tools made the list? Find it here, tell us your favorite tool!
Manage Grafana Loki alerting and recording rules using GitOps by Ishan Jain: If, like Ishain, you also find it challenging that the alerting and recording rules in Grafana Loki could only be set in the Helm chart’s values.yml, then you’re in luck because he discovered a solution. Instead of declaring everything in a single manifest, he wanted the option to construct Loki alerting and recording rules using any number of files. Still, he did not find any post which could help me with this! So he wrote this article to help you and others that encounter this problem but have no solution.
Docker commands for software developers by Ivan Polovyi: Another incredible read by Ivan. He cites how essential Docker is to developers. It allows them to keep a local development environment as close as possible to a real production environment without a lot of effort.
In this tutorial, he shares useful Docker commands with real examples to help developers use Docker efficiently. Read the commands here
Top Free Apps Which Are Just Awesome! But Are Less Known by FadinGeek: There are some seriously awesome apps out there that can make our lives easier, but we don’t know about them yet. And what’s better? Most of them are free — just what we love, apps that improve our efficiency and won’t take a dime from us just yet. Read up here
How to configure Security Headers in Nginx by Omar EL Farsaoui ☸️🇲🇦: Want to know how to configure Security Headers in Nginx? In this tutorial, Omar talks about the six Nginx Headers used to add security layers from HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to Access-Control-Allow-Origin. Read here
That was the list of the top articles we had from last month, you’re may be interested in reading other awesome articles like:
👉 CoreWeave Unlocks the Power of EleutherAI’s GPT-NeoX-20B, if you’re looking for cheaper, yet performant AI infrastructure.
👉 Green-IT Software Development. This article shows a high-level overview of the topic Green-IT with information from several sources
👉 Who removes my files? By Denis Matveev who is investigating who removed his files from the server
