馃嚞馃嚪 Santorini: my tips after one week

This is not a guide but only a collection of opinionated tips I can share to anyone visiting the island of Santorini. 馃殫 Rent a car Renting a car is a must. The island is small but the public transportation is not very efficient. You can easily drive from one side of the island to the other in less than 30 minutes. We booked our car with Santorini Easy Rent. They have a wide range of cars and the prices are very competitive. The staff is very friendly and they can deliver the car to your hotel or the airport. ...

August 3, 2024 路 5 min 路 911 words

Kubernetes Requests & Limits

This document is the result of research on the topic of CPU/Memory Limits and Requests for Kubernetes, to provide engineers with a better understanding of how such configuration work and can affect the execution and performance of services. Requests and Limits are the mechanisms k8s uses to control the utilisation of resources such as CPU and memory. Requests are what the container is guaranteed to get. If a container requests a resource, the kube-scheduler will only schedule it on a node that can give it that resource. ...

September 15, 2022 路 8 min 路 1564 words

茮馃摝 AWS Lambdas containers and Go

TL;DR AWS official base images for lambdas ship entire distros, use scratch or distroless base images for statically compiled languages like Go and use the aws-lambda-runtime-interface-emulator as the entrypoint. Intro In December 2020, AWS announced support for packaging and running lambdas in containers. In this blog post I鈥檒l try to dig a little bit deeper on how it works and how we can improve what鈥檚 described in the official article, so that we can run an example Go application as a Dockerised lambda both on AWS and locally in the most space efficient way. ...

March 13, 2021 路 4 min 路 759 words

A tour of Naples

Map of Naples Points of interests Piazza del Plebiscito, Lungomare and Castles Piazza Plebiscito Gran Caff猫 Gambrinus Lungomare Caracciolo Castel dell鈥橭vo Open to the public Castel Nuovo (a.k.a. Maschio Angioino, open to the public) High Street Via Toledo (high street, shopping) Galleria Umberto I ...

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