Published inNEW IT Engineering·PinnedKeep your code refactorableGrowing confidence in the software you are building — In todays software engineering world, we want to move quickly. Get features out there to receive early feedback. React to changing requirements to build the application that is actually required, not the one that was initially described. …Clean Code13 min readClean Code13 min read
Published inNEW IT Engineering·Mar 29Azure & Terraform: Rotate Customer-managed Keys in Data Factory with TerraformIn my previous post we learned how to setup Customer-Managed Key (CMK) encryption for Data Factory when using Terraform. This time we will look at how we can rotate that configured CMK. The reason to rotate a CMK might be security driven: Prevent the exploitation of a potentially exposed key…Azure7 min readAzure7 min read
Published inNEW IT Engineering·Mar 23Add Customer-managed Key to Git-managed Data Factory via TerraformI recently was requested to configure our Data Factory instance to use a customer-managed key for its encryption. This was part of the compliance and security policies that we have in place in our Azure tenant in order to enforce better infrastructure through static code analysis. The idea of customer-managed…Data Factory7 min readData Factory7 min read
Published inNEW IT Engineering·Jan 10Azure Data Factory Time-To-Live BillingI recently ran into the surprise that our Data Factory instance incurred almost 600€ of cost for a single day — which, in comparison to our usual 10–20€ is immense! During that time I was checking for possible performance gains and one option I found, but apparently not fully understood…Azure8 min readAzure8 min read
Published inNEW IT Engineering·Mar 25, 2022Testcontainers on PodmanRunning the Testcontainers library with Podman instead of Docker to execute integration tests Disclaimer: The technical foundation for this post is not from me, but instead I learned about this from the following two sources. My motivation to post here anyways is to make the information more approachable: Bsantanna mentioned…Testcontainer3 min readTestcontainer3 min read
Published inNEW IT Engineering·Mar 18, 2022Commits are to Code what Save Games are to Video GamesCommits are like the checkpoints in video games that you can reset to if your character dies or you want to approach things differently As you might have read in my blogpost keep your code refactorable already, I consider each code commit I make a checkpoint that I can always…Coding4 min readCoding4 min read
Feb 28, 2022Extended Displays on Manjaro with AMD CPU and Nvidia GPULeveraging multiple monitors while having a dedicated GPU and an AMD CPU can be tricky and time-consuming to manage The problem On the weekend, I installed Manjaro KDE on my laptop and was amazed by the speed! But: I couldn’t use my two external monitors. They were detected in the settings and…Manjaro3 min readManjaro3 min read
Published inNEW IT Engineering·Feb 21, 2022Commit Messages over Code CommentsA proper message replaces most comments I want to extend on one of the factors of refactorable code as I have described it in my blog post keep your code refactorable. The factor I want to talk about is proper commits and more specifically proper commit messages. In the other…Git3 min readGit3 min read
Published inNEW IT Engineering·Nov 29, 2021Deploy your Azure Data Factory through TerraformJust recently I was asked to setup a simple ETL pipeline in the Azure cloud to merge CSV files stored in a blob storage into a single SQL table and have that infrastructure setup via Terraform. The final infrastructure looked similar to the image below. CSV files are uploaded into…Azure5 min readAzure5 min read
Published inNEW IT Engineering·Jul 26, 2021Git ConvenientThere are a few git commands that I use very frequently, but not quite as much as add, commit and push. These commands greatly help to structure my daily development routine and are quite convenient for certain tasks! Stash In git, you cannot only add your changes to a branch as…Git5 min readGit5 min read
