Publications de Eric Favre

Kubernetes has quickly become the de facto standard for container orchestration. If the basics are now well understood, the new “upstream” features are much less, even though they make the product richer and able to address some very specific use cases. This article is a review of these new features, as well as the upcoming ones that come with the 1.10 release. A prior knowledge of kubernetes is a prerequisite. Disclaimer: some of these features are alpha, meaning that some backward incompatible changes may be…

“Kubernetes is the Linux of the cloud”This quote by Kelsey Hightower during the Kubecon 2017 in Austin emphasize the rise of Kubernetes among modern cloud infrastructures. This rise is partly driven by the developers community, but also by the web giants such as Google, Amazon, Alibaba or Red Hat who have invested a lot on this technology, and keep contributing to its improvement and smoothening its integration to their respective ecosystems. EKS for AWS, GKE for Google and AKS for Azure are good illustrations of…

Introduction: We've all heard of Vue.js, the last trendy JavaScript framework. Some have already played with it. But beyond the POC, it's time to gear up for real life Vue.js projects. And what's better than some TDD with Vue.js to achieve that? The point of this article is to share the basics to develop with Vue.js using TDD. To do so, we will use a very simple component based on Vue CLI default template. We will add to it a few WebFront basic features: two…

The blockchain is a trendy subject, and we believe one needs to apply its principle to an actual project to understand its technology and progress status. We chose to implement an online money pot in Ethereum, a kind of blockchain that focuses on smart-contracts instead of money transfer. This article demonstrates how we can leverage Ethereum to develop this use-case.

In this article, we'll talk about Xamarin, a C# .NET tool enabling development of cross-platform mobile applications. We'll focus on the missing part: the reuse of native libraries. What is Xamarin? Xamarin is not only a product but also a company. The product addresses a common issue, the unified cross-platform development. Xamarin allows to create native applications on iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms. Its upside lies in the reuse of code, reducing the time to market. Xamarin also provides its own development environment, Xamarin…

The first steps towards industrialized developments usually start with continuous integration. Although it is often seen as an achievement in itself, it's actually only a piece of an efficient and managed solution.