In my past 25 years, I have learned so many things about Linux, and yet I am still learning and discovering fabulous new material about the Linux Shell and their commands. In DevOps or Pair Programming sessions, my co-workers sometimes find it astonishing, what kind of commands I am writing. It looks like magic to some or like a hack to others.

Using GitHub or GitLab comes with benefits like Emojis. This article will present an idea of utilising Emojis in git commit messages to improve code overview.

Working for federal government agencies in a multilingual state requires multiple translations for every official language. Switzerland has, for instance, four official languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh. Romansh is very rare. We will use English instead to demonstrate the translation feature.

Debugging distributed systems can be a pain. There are so many things that could go wrong, from application failures to container permissions to firewalls and networking issues. In this blog post we will get to know 6 useful CLI tools to help identify the root cause of any unexpected behavior.

A regular task in the life of a software developer is to choose appropriate tools for specific use cases. That's why I would like to have a short look at several tools which I already used for testing REST APIs. To be more concrete, it's about cURL, JMeter, SOAP UI, Swagger UI, Postman and IntelliJ Idea.