Recently, I found myself needing to incorporate a CODEOWNERS-file to multiple repositories within our Github organization. The objective was to automatically reviewers for pull-requests. And codeowners are a perfect tool for this. This way every colleague in our company can join our Github organization and get write-access to the …

I needed to create multiple Github repositories and grant access to them for different users. After creating the first repository by hand and granting access to it, I had enough of it. There are just too many damn clicks!

So I used the CLI. Github has a nice cli-program called …

I host my private servers at Hetzner, a really nice, reliable and cheap german webhoster.

Previously I managed my DNS zones with Route 53 from Amazon. There I paid 50 cents per zone per month. I have multiple zones so this adds up at the end of the year.

Then …

Suppose you run a database as a service (DBaaS) for example in Azure. You have automated backups configured in case something bad happens. However these backups do not save you against a accidental database deletion as the backups get deleted, too!

Then there’s the Open Telekom Cloud (OTC). The …

The Open Telekom Cloud provides Redis as a Service called Distributed Cache Service.

The used Redis version is 3, first published on 1 Apr 2015. The latest 3.0.x release was published on 28 jan 2016. The current version is 6.2.2, published on Mon April 19 2021 …