This is the fourth and final part of this little series of introducing kubernetes to system operators. In the first post I gave an overview about the general structure of a kubernetes cluster. The second post deals with managing ingress networking, as exposing services to the outside world is something …
moreIntroduction to kubernetes pt. 3: Storage
This is part three of my small high level Kubernetes introduction. In the first post I gave an overview about the control plane and in the previous post I explained how we can get traffic into our cluster.
In this post we will answer the basic question: When pods can …
moreIntroduction to kubernetes pt. 2: Ingress networking
In the previous post I gave a rough overview about the control plane of a kubernetes cluster, as well as some explanation on how to think about it.
Why a post about this? Can't I just create a loadbalancer Service and everything works? Or just create an ingress with the …
moreIntroduction to kubernetes pt. 1
In this series of posts I want to give a small introduction into Kubernetes. I am fairly new to Kubernetes and the first platform I designed just went into production and I found most of the introductory literature not so helpful in this process. My memory is still fresh on …
moreThings that rock
When it comes to software I usually hate pretty much everything and I was born the proverbial grumpy old man yelling "get off my lawn". Especially in times where people have succumbed to atrocities like the initsystem that is everything, but a functioning initsystem, the sound management software that breaks …
moreOn tracking bodyweight
This is a topic which somehow still confuses people and there is a lot of seemingly contradicting advice. The main problem is that bodyweight fluctuates daily, but the best solution people came up with is doing weekly averages or, worse, only to step on the scale once a week. I …
morePeriodization for fun and profit
Most people somewhat involved in strength sports are familiar with the term periodiziation [1]. To cite the first sentence of Wikipedia on it, it is the systematic planning of athletic and physical training, but for the rest of the article, I assume that the reader is somewhat familiar with the …
moreman (3) weight prescriptions
As most trainees know there are different ways on how to prescribe or measure the weight on a bar. This is a small glossary of terms one encounters frequently, as it probably be also can be found elsewhere on the web, but well, now I have a link handy.
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How I currently think about Sheiko's programs
Boris Sheiko is currently the most renowned powerlifting coach in the world, having produced countless exceptional lifters, not only in Russia, but thanks to the internet all over the world. His programs often deem very complex, featuring his characteristic double sessions, where you perform a main lift twice in a …
moreWorking with the Juggernaut Method
Over the past two years the Juggernaut Method by Chad Wesley Smith has become the general strength training template of my choice. While Chad's book already has several pointers on how to modify the template to make it your own program, as well as exhaustive options for assistance work, I …
moreCreatine FAQ
Here is a quick FAQ about creatine. Few things create so much confusion as creatine – not because there is so much conflicting information, but mainly because it is something almost anyone at some point comes into contact with it and wonders what it is about, whether you are into sports …
moreLearning the Olympic lifts as a Powerlifter
Most of the ways people teach the Olympic lifts to lifters seem to be tailored to weak people, who are in the beginning of their lifting career, or really athletic people, who can already move challenging weights during the whole range of motion. I guess in the past this was …
moreWhen weekly progression stops working
It is popular to start strength training with some sort of linear program, like the aptly named Starting Strength program by Mark Rippetoe</a>` and in general, this is a good idea, as it produces consistent results across all age groups and genders. When these programs stop working, many people …
moreAdding Kernel-Firmware Blobs (for Radeon HD 4670)
After almost ten years I finally decided to upgrade my system. While my old AMD 5050e is still fast enough for most applications one needs in real life, it is too slow to display an image on some crappy javascript webpage.
As currently all AMD graphics cards are out of …
moreRandomization of tasks and issues