Fearless Distroless
Distroless images are a solution to reduce your image size and improve its security, by providing neither a package manager nor a shell.

Technologist focusing on cloud-native technologies, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and system observability. His focus revolves around creating technical content, delivering talks, and engaging with developer communities to promote the adoption of modern software practices. With a strong background in software, he has worked extensively with the JVM, applying his expertise across various industries. In addition to his technical work, he is the author of several books and regularly shares insights through his blog and open-source contributions.
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Nicolas Frankel
4,362 viewsDistroless images are a solution to reduce your image size and improve its security, by providing neither a package manager nor a shell.

Nicolas Frankel
3,444 viewsA couple of weeks ago, I spent the weekend creating another CFP submission helper in the form of a Firefox extension.

Nicolas Frankel
3,466 viewsHeroku's owner, Salesforce, announced it would stop the free plan, I found a new provider, Scaleway, and here are my experiences.

Nicolas Frankel
5,471 viewsThis review is about API Design Patterns by JJ Geewax from Manning. Check it out and if you've read it too, what did you think?

Nicolas Frankel
7,682 viewsExternalizing your authentication process to a third party may be sensible, but avoid binding your infrastructure to its proprietary …

Nicolas Frankel
2,539 viewsLearn how you can leverage OPA and Apache APISIX to move your authentication and authorization logic from the code to the infrastructure.

Nicolas Frankel
2,856 viewsDiscussion extrapoliating from per-user rate limiting showing how one can implement it in a library and an infrastructure component.

Nicolas Frankel
8,276 viewsFollowing on from FOSDEM discussions, let's expand on the problem of nullability and how it's solved in Kotlin and Java.

Nicolas Frankel
2,513 viewsAPI Gateways are critical components in one's infrastructure. Here we list a couple of ways to secure your Apache APISIX admin access.

Nicolas Frankel
3,641 viewsSOAP's biggest flaw was its complexity and its focus on big companies, but it at least provided a shared set of standard specifications.