PyConES 2024: my impressions of my first time in a python conference!
PyconEs 2024 in Vigo PyConES is the annual Python conference in Spain, and it is organized by the Python Spain association. The Python community in Vigo is quite active and so, they were invited to host PyConES 2024. Just to mention too, Python Vigo was a pillar to the creation of VigoTech Alliance, the meta community of tech communities in Vigo. Keeping the long story, Confluent was an sponsor (and a colleague had a talk), so I had no excuses to not attend it. If you do not want to hear more, the TL;DR is that I was impressed by the number of people, the quality of the talks and the organization. Congrats to everyone involved! ...
How to Use Confluent for Kubernetes to Manage Resources Outside of Kubernetes
Article in Confluent Blog My first article on Confluent Blog How to Use Confluent for Kubernetes to Manage Resources Outside of Kubernetes talks about how to manage your Confluent resources like RBAC, topics, schemas and connectors using Kubernetes in Confluent components living outside Kubernetes. The article is complemented with a full demo and I hope it can be an inspiration if you are familiar with Kubernetes and uses Confluent components in VM machines or similar. ...
Moving to GitHub Actions
Why Travis CI is blocking this blog to be generated, why? I do not know, I have credits for it, but it cannot be used, so I am forced to tick a task in my list and move to GitHub actions. Disabling Travis CI Removing GitHub <-> Travis CI integration Go to https://github.com/settings/installations Search “Travis CI” and click Configure Scroll down and click in the “Uninstall” button Go to https://github.com/settings/apps/authorizations Search “Travis CI” and click Revoke Deleting Travis CI According to this forum question, there is no UI option. Send a mail to support@travis-ci.com requesting the account deletion. Add GitHub Actions That is the easiest part as Hugo created a nice tutorial. I followed it and that is the reason why you are able to read this blog post. ...
Migrating From Junit4 to Junit5
In 2019, I gave a talk at Netcentric Summit about Junit5 migration and its advantages. You can check the content here: Video: Netcentric | JUnit 5, mockito 2 and AEM Mocks, is it true for you? Blog post: JUnit 5: leveraging new features for testing After 3 years, I wanted to revisit the procedure to migrate from junit4 to junit5, so let’s do it! The result was this PR. Steps 1. Dependencies 1.2 Main pom.xml In the main pom.xml, replace ...
My summary about AWS queues
I was doubting about writing this post because AWS is evolving really fast and this post will be probably old very fast. So, I am adding the AWS documentation, so, please take your time to check the official documentation to confirm my findings (and if possible, write me a message so I can update it if needed). SQS AWS SQS is a simple 1:1 queue, so it delivers messages from A to B. ...