2024 Wrapped and on to 2025

akugel | Dec. 30, 2024, 3:33 p.m.

2024 was a year of transition. My team at work was split in two, with half going to tech sales, and the other half (including me) going into global consulting. This was a bit of a sudden change, and resulted in most of the beginning part of 2024 being dedicated to understandin…

Making Django Unchained Kubernetes Production Ready

akugel | April 7, 2023, 5:57 p.m.

Hi all, as I stated in my last post, I've been working on getting Django Unchained to run on Kubernetes. I was successful in this goal, but it wasn't fully production ready. For instance, it had to use manage.py runserver command instead of running as a Web Server Gateway I…

Containerizing Django Unchained on Kubernetes

akugel | Dec. 12, 2022, 3:56 p.m.

Time passes, things change, and evaluation is required. Recently I've been working on containerizing this website. This will result in a more cloud native application that is resilient and scalable.

First, I need to provision a cluster. I have decided to go with aks, …

Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself

akugel | Oct. 13, 2022, 3:26 p.m.

So disaster struck in the django unchained world. Originally the “About” section of this website was just hardcoded html. This was not in the spirit of the sleek dynamic content that this website soughts to provide. As such, I decided to create a model for the contributors of…