The hidden cost of slow application code

Introduction Developers are often told not to focus on the performance of applications before it is required (to prevent premature optimization). And that a productive language (low effort from the developers to produce the code) is more important than a language that...

Configuration Management with SaltStack

At Hendrikx ITC we have been using SaltStack for our configuration management needs for over 9 years. Because SaltStack was recently in the news because of an acquisition by VMWare, I got the idea to explain again why it can be useful to use a configuration management...