In this edition of our series dedicated to spotlighting the movers and shakers in the tech world, we're thrilled to welcome Michael Muinos, an experienced Software Engineer currently residing at Google who is also the founder of Algos With Michael. Through this conversation, we aim to dive deep into the experiences that have defined Michael's career, alongside exploring the challenges and triumphs encountered, we will also share advice for aspiring software engineering professionals in this piece.

Test data is a critical component of software testing, referring to the input values, files, or other resources used to exercise a software application or system during testing. In other words, test data is the fuel that powers software testing, enabling teams to validate the functionality, performance, and security of a software product.

As Kafka evolves in your business, adopting best practices becomes a must. The GitOps methodology makes sure deployments match intended outcomes, anchored by a single source of truth. When integrating Apache Kafka with GitOps, many will think of Strimzi. Strimzi uses the Operator pattern for synchronization. This approach, whilst effective, primarily caters to Kubernetes-based Kafka resources (e.g. Topics). But this isn’t ideal.

Hey there! We're back for our second edition of Tips and Tricks. As we said in our first post on Drizzle ORM, our new Tips and Tricks mini blog series is going to share some helpful insights and cool tech that we've stumbled upon while working on technical stuff. Today, we're going to talk about the template databases of PostgreSQL. Remember, these posts will be super short reads. If you don’t like the topic of one of the posts, no problem! Just skip it and check out the next one.

Figuring out what APIs are doing in Kubernetes can be difficult. Read the pros and cons of WireShark, Kubeshark and Speedscale and when to use which.