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  • Getting started with Azure Pipelines

    Getting started with Azure Pipelines

    Azure DevOps is a SaaS solution for your git repositories, wikis, artifact repository and more. One part of it is Azure Pipelines, for your CI/CD pipelines. We will show you how can quickly build your first pipeline with Azure DevOps. Azure Pipelines is a part of Azure DevOps with which you can create CI and…

  • Heroku set to end its free tier later this year

    Heroku set to end its free tier later this year

    Heroku has announced that later this year it will end its free tier, which means users can no longer use free Dynos and free Postgres and Redis add-ons. Users have until 28 November 2022 to migrate to a paid plan. Heroku announces the changes in a blog. Affected customers also received an email in which…

  • Type hints in Python 3

    Type hints in Python 3

    Python has support for type hinting since version 3.5. That’s quite useful, because it makes your code more predictable since you have more information about what types to expect. In this article we will dive deeper into what type hinting exactly is, how it works and how you can use it in Python 3. With…

  • New features when upgrading from Java 11 to Java 17

    New features when upgrading from Java 11 to Java 17

    In september 2021 Java 17 was released. Now, almost one year later, it is about time to upgrade. Java 17 is an LTS release with support until September 2023 and extended support until September 2026, which makes this version ideal for running in a production environment. We will walk you through the most important new…

  • Getting started with AWS CDK v2

    Getting started with AWS CDK v2

    With the AWS CDK you can easily build your infrastructure on AWS as Infrastructure-as-Code. Instead of writing long CloudFormation templates in YML you can write short, to the point code to create an S3 bucket, deploy a Lambda or create a CloudFront distribution. We will walk you through everything you need to know to get…