Which tools and technologies are new and exciting, proven, growing stale–report from Devoxx 2022

Lucas Jellema

A conference such as Devoxx is a great opportunity to get inspired into trying out tools and technologies that may not or only be vaguely be known as they are mentioned or even demonstrated by presenters or discussed in the hallways of the movie theater where the conference is taking […]

Running Apache Kafka on Minikube

Lucas Jellema

I frequently want to demonstrate the working of Apache Kafka and/or provide colleagues and other audiences with an environment for a workshop that involves Apache Kafka. I have been struggling to find  a good way to get Kafka to function properly on Minikube – the standalone, single node Kubernetes cluster […]

Minikube on KVM on Linux Mint 19.1

Maarten Smeets

In a previous blog post I wrote about running Minikube on Windows. I ended with the suggestion that getting Minikube working might be much easier on Linux. Thus I installed Linux Mint (as dual-boot) on my laptop and gave it a shot. The steps I took to get it working […]