Reviving the blog

The last post on this blog was approximately three years ago. Since then, a lot has happened. The main reason why I’ve not written anything in three years is: I’ve been busy. Apart from my studies, I’ve been working as a teaching assistant on some programming courses, I’ve worked as a research assistant within the distributed systems group, and I’ve worked as DevOps at Elastisys, a cloud computing systems company.

Upgrading the blog

I’ve always been meaning to get back to blogging about stuff, but I’ve just been too busy, and there has always been some small “fixes” (such as enabling HTTPS) I would like to apply to the blog before I could get back to writing.

Now I finally found some time to do a complete overhaul of the website and I introduced a lot of changes:

New design: Minimal Mistakes by Michael Rose

A new theme for the blog has been chosen, and it’s the Minimal Mistakes theme by Michael Rose. It has nice support for code, images and videos which is all I need. Also, it looks customizeable and the code seems to be quite sane from what I can see.

The new design also comes with a lot of features, such as improved SEO, built-in support for comments, searching, and lots of more

Comments (soon)

I’ve enabled comments on each post, but due to some issue comments aren’t available quite yet.

HTTPS everywhere

All data to and from the website is now HTTPS, thanks to LetsEncrypt. This means that all traffic is encrypted.

Onwards: Master’s thesis

One of the main reasons for getting back to blogging, however, is that I’m starting my master’s thesis! For my own sake, I will try to blog at least once a week during the 20 week endeavor.

My master’s thesis has a working title of “Performance anomaly detection in container clusters”. I will be doing my thesis at Elastisys, a company I’ve worked for in the past.

The work on my master’s thesis will officially begin tomorrow, and I’m quite excited. I’ve spent the last week preparing by building this blog and reading up on anomaly detection and Kubernetes. I will most probably be using Kubernetes for managing the container clusters.

My aim is to produce a new blog entry tomorrow after my first day. :)