Zrzka’s adventures

Leaving Medium

I decided to leave Medium. I’m not quite happy with it, how it works and especially in the are of code highlighting (Gist — I do not want to edit my post in several places). Not saying Medium is bad, it just doesn’t suit my needs.

Python IDE on the iPad Pro

Foreword

My career is kind of colourful. I was working on aircraft systems, VoIP HW & SW, developing Linux kernel drivers, Linux distributions, OpenOffice.org and many other low level (RTOS) & high level (desktop applications) stuff. Linux nerd. I…

AWS journey — API Gateway & Lambda & VPC performance

We decided to hide some EC2 instances in private subnets (VPC). They’re accessible via bastion hosts or via API (API Gateway & Lambda). Works well, but there’s one weird issue — cold lambda start time is over 10s sometimes. We experienced…

AWS journey — EC2 Container Service

We were using (and we’re still it using for some services) Docker Cloud. Main problem with DC is that they can’t handle private subnets. EC2 instance must be in the public subnet and that’s not what we want.

Yes, I don’t like Slack

I don’t know why people are so excited about Slack (or HipChat). I don’t like it and people often ask me why?

• macOS client (web wrapper) performance is terrible, especially in the full screen mode. Same applies to web application as well.