There’s a better title — Introduction Okay, so there are DevOps Engineers, but the title is misleading and in theory, it shouldn’t be used. DevOps is not any one person’s responsibility. It’s in the name itself. It is the continual goal to improve the processes between developers and operators. It often feels like giving someone that…

RabbitMQ is surpassing Kafka in features and maintainability — Introduction RabbitMQ seems to have fallen to the wayside in recent years with more and more companies turning to streaming databases like Kafka to handle high throughput messaging. That might be changing soon. Kafka has a reputation for being difficult to run at scale. Strimzi, an open source project, tries to…

There’s a better option that you’ve probably never heard of — Introduction I use a lot of great open source projects, but the vast majority of the time, the reason I don’t adopt an open source project is because of the 3rd party database dependency that they rely on. It appears that when a NoSQL (document) database is needed, open source developers…

A quick, plain English fix and explanation of the Let’s Encrypt expiring root certificate issue for clients + users — Introduction Here’s the deal, Let’s Encrypt uses a root CA certificate that is “cross-signed”. This basically means it’s like having 2 root CAs in 1, but your device only needs to trust 1 of them, not both. This helped Let’s Encrypt when they started because DST Root CA X3 is older…

There’s a lot more to Minio now than you probably knew about — Introduction For the past few years, I’ve been moving on and off Minio’s Kubernetes operator. I forget why now, but every time I moved to it, I would discover it was missing something, documentation was confusing, or it was just too much of a pain to deal with compared to their…

Implementing the new reCaptcha Enterprise on Nodejs — Introduction Well, there’s another version of Captcha. This one is called enterprise, and it is the fourth version. It works basically the same as v3 with some additional features on the implementation side. A comparison can be found here: reCaptcha comparison Bad Documentation Integrating with it was pretty painful. The documentation is just…