Tech Couch

A Comfy Corner for Software, Security, Cloud, and AI

How software compression works

Making files smaller without losing information

Checking disk health in Linux

Identify bad drives before they fail

Handling file downloads with PHP

Meeting user expectations with every download

Streamlined error handling in PHP

Handling all kinds of errors with a single function

An introduction to structured logging

Bringing order to log messages

Builtin HTTP routing in Go

Fully featured web services with standard library only

Operating postgres clusters on Kubernetes

Automating backups and failover with the kubegres operator

Writing kubernetes manifests by hand

Writing valid and secure object definitions

PHP output buffering

Controlling what gets sent and when

Automating local domains for minikube

Local ingress domains that just work