Software Engineer at day. Tech Storyteller at night. Helping people master Containers.
Hey, hey!
It's Ivan Velichko, from iximiuz.com! It's the end of the year, so it's time for a little retrospective, presents, and future plans 🎉
I've been blogging persistently for the past few years, and 2021 became the year for my blog. This year, the grand total of six articles of mine hit the front page of Hacker News, and I'm thankful to all of you for that tremendous level of support:
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The SEO traffic also kept growing and almost quadrupled since the summer:
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On the blog, I strive to publish stuff that stays relevant for at least a few years. The ever-increasing number of posts (60+ at the time of writing this email) and the growing traffic made me think it's time to improve the blog structure. So, I spent the first half of December redesigning the site, and I'm ready to present you with the results:
The update includes:
I hope the redesign will help readers to explore the materials. But I also tend to see it as the first step toward my more ambitious goal - repurposing this site from a personal blog to an educational resource. In the long run, I see it as a place with a rich set of high-quality learning materials (ideally augmented with interactive in-browser labs) where readers could return again and again to improve their Cloud-Native and Server-Side skills.
With all the above happenings, I have a strong motivation to double down on my writing (and drawings) in 2022. I'm not going to give up my engineering job yet because it keeps me hands-on, but I'd love to find an opportunity to spend more time on the blog in the coming year. So, I'm starting to think of ways to fund this activity. Have an idea? Drop me a message!
Two full-fledged blog posts this month:
And one twitter thread with a huge collection of Kubernetes GUI/UI/CLI clients. My personal favorites are k9s (terminal dashboard) and Octant (browser dashboard). Although, I still use kubectl 99.9% of the time.
That's it for now. I wish you a Happy New Year and see you all in January!
Stay safe!
Cheers,
Ivan Velichko
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Software Engineer at day. Tech Storyteller at night. Helping people master Containers.
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