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My friend Juan Paucar directed me to a paper from the magnificent Programming Languages and Systems 28th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2019, related to Codata. I have been very interested in codata, mainly because it relates to data in a category-theory way, but, as usual, I didn't understand many of the words involved. This paper helped me understand a lot, and also helped me understand and shape my mind on how to connect the worlds of FP and OOP. But, before that, we must go on tour over a bit of theory.

At work, I’ve recently been asked to advise our engineers on how to write blog posts. A lot of such articles are already available. However, they tend to focus around two main themes:

• The technical publishing platform e.g. Jekyll, Medium, etc.
• Metrics e.g. readability score, SEO, etc.

Beyond that, everyone is on one’s own. But I believe that writing a good technical article is as much art as engineering.

In this post, I’d like to try to address this gap: I’ve been writing this blog for more than a decade. I hope I’ve learned some things along the way, so here are my advices.

I’ve been continuing to write pages about CSS! Here are 6 more.

Two of them are about how to think about CSS in general (“CSS isn’t easy” and “backwards compatibility”), which is something I’m still trying to wrap my head around.

Kubernetes is a popular, cloud-native container orchestration system. Adoption of Kubernetes in production environments has rapidly increased over the last several years. As Kubernetes adoption increases, there is often pressure to migrate applications that are currently deployed via other means onto Kubernetes. Performing an effective migration of these applications to Kubernetes may help organizations adopt DevOps practices, and it will allow organizations to unify their operations onto a single set of cloud tooling and expertise.

However, cloud-native software architectures are different from traditional architectures in a variety of ways. As a result, migration of a system into a cloud-native environment is not as simple as a rehosting migration. This post introduces a generic process that provides a useful set of questions to ask when planning a Kubernetes migration. The answers to the questions can then be used to make informed choices about how to use the various deployment options available within Kubernetes.