Reading recommendations, week 33/2024

The role of mentorship, why Perl remains indispensable today, how to do a personal retreat, remembering the LAN, and how to cleanly shut down Kubernetes pods.

The Role of Mentorship: How mentors played a crucial role in my development and success

This article highlights the advantages of mentorship as experienced by the author. It also offers helpful tips on how to find a mentor.

Why Perl Remains Indispensable in the Age of Modern Programming Languages

“In a world flooded with shiny new toys like Go, Kotlin, and Python, Perl remains the wise (and slightly eccentric) grandparent at the family reunion, clutching its cherished regular expressions and muttering about the good old days.” Maybe you have to be (or have been) a Perl developer to find this little post as delightful as I did.

How to Do a Personal Retreat in Obsidian

This article helped me prepare for the personal retreat I did last week. I can highly recommend doing these personal retreats regularly to make sure things are going in the right direction. I hadn’t done one yet this year, and in the end, I really felt lost at sea. After two days of reflection and planning, I’m back on course.

Remembering the LAN

I remember lugging my PC and monitor to a friend’s house, laying cables from room to room, and playing Doom against each other all day. It’s an intriguing idea to get back to building our own, cosy small networks again, this time over the internet using modern technology like Tailscale.

Graceful shutdown in Kubernetes

Not to leave you without any hands-on DevOps article, this one explains details of the Kubernetes scheduling process that are important for a clean shutdown of your deployments.

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