My Go-Based URL Shortener Project

Shrink.ch, a user-friendly Go-based URL shortener with features auto-generated and custom short URLs, QR-code generation, and visit tracking.

March 15, 2024 · 2 min · 361 words · Benjamin Buetikofer

Bocker - Backup and Restore in Docker

I wrote a tool that puts a backup into a Docker image and stores it on a private repo in Docker Hub.

February 10, 2023 · 4 min · 706 words · Benjamin Buetikofer

PromLens Helm Chart

Constructing proper PromQL queries for you data is hard. One tool that helps a lot to understand the data that is available and to construct queries is PromLens. If you don’t know PromLens yet, I suggest to read this blog post. A few days ago we open-sourced the Helm Chart we use at Ricardo to deploy PromLens and we’ve made it available on Artifacthub. I hope this Chart will be as useful to you as it is to us. ...

February 20, 2021 · 1 min · 79 words · Benjamin Buetikofer

How To Work Remotely

This post explains the adjustments that were needed to the way we work in the SRE Team at Ricardo when we went fully remote.

November 15, 2020 · 6 min · 1103 words · Benjamin Buetikofer

Why Rails is Awesome

Volunteering at iOverlander made me realize what a productivity enabler Rails is.

March 15, 2020 · 3 min · 548 words · Benjamin Buetikofer