The three types of CTOs
When thinking about your startup management team composition, hiring a new CTO, or hiring your first engineering manager (or VP of engineering, or head of [t...
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Why we introduced growth weeks at Promaton
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Local development with Kubernetes on Mac OS
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Running multiple versions of a micro service
Last week I visited GOTO Amsterdam. There were some fantastic speakers talking about micro services. At Magnet.me we’re spending a lot of effort in transform...
Running and testing Puppet master locally
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