Chris Vermeulen
Cloud, Kubernetes, Serverless

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14
Nov
Advocating for readability at the cost of maintainability

Advocating for readability at the cost of maintainability

At this point, I think most of us understand that us developers spend more time reading code than writing it.
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14
Nov

CRAAP Test

The CRAAP test is an acronym for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose, which are five standards used to evaluate
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14
Nov

Cohen's kappa

Cohen's kappa is a statistic that measures the agreement between two raters on categorical data, correcting for chance
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07
Nov
AI is Rewriting the Rules of Workflow Engines

AI is Rewriting the Rules of Workflow Engines

AI is reinventing deterministic workflow engines like Zapier. Instead of chaining fixed inputs and outputs, AI-driven workflows build and reason from shared context, blending deterministic precision with agentic flexibility.
4 min read
09
Sep

Vulnerabilities. Known vs. Actual risk.

A new vulnerability is discovered in an open source package used in your codebase. Should you block the codebase from
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03
Aug
My emigration journey

My emigration journey

I'm Chris. In 2019 I moved to Germany. This is my story. I'm a South African.
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23
Sep
Newsletter #1

Newsletter #1

Hi there fellow techies ! It's been an insane couple weeks at work, but I churned out a couple
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23
Sep
Laravel in Kubernetes Part 11 - Adding Let's Encrypt certificates to the application

Laravel in Kubernetes Part 11 - Adding Let's Encrypt certificates to the application

The next important piece, is for us to add certificates to our application, so our users can securely use our
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14
Sep
Laravel in Kubernetes Part 10 - Exposing the application

Laravel in Kubernetes Part 10 - Exposing the application

Our application is now successfully deployed in Kubernetes, but we need to expose it to the outside world. We can
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31
Aug
Laravel in Kubernetes Part 9 - Deploying the Laravel Scheduler

Laravel in Kubernetes Part 9 - Deploying the Laravel Scheduler

In this post, we'll cover deploying the Laravel Scheduler in Kubernetes. The Laravel Scheduler takes care of running
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