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Turn off your server tokens!

A common mistake a lot of people make when installing their servers is forgetting to turn off their server tokens. When you visit a page through your browser, headers are sent containing these server tokens. The webserver or application serves these headers. This would mean that anyone that is visiting your website can see the […]

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5 Things You Need To Know About Long-Term Goals

Long-Term Goals The key to unlocking your long-term goals is to know your short-term actions. Ask yourself what are the steps you need to take to get to a particular goal? Sounds easy enough right? But what if you are trying to get into a role you have no experience with or you don’t know […]

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Should You Buy or Build if You Want Innovation?

Should you buy or build? We all know them, the companies that shout that they want to be innovative within their sector, and want to do the ‘new’ things that are going to get the sector that they are in further and into a new era in some cases. What is interesting to see is […]

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3 Leadership Lessons Learned Watching a Video on Cars

Browsing YouTube in my downtime I came across a video with Christian von Koenigsegg. Von Koenigsegg, founder and CEO of Koenigsegg, builds some of the craziest, beautiful, high-performance cars in the world. As someone with an interest in leadership, the video was fascinating for multiple reasons described below. What kind of leadership lessons can we […]

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Why Do People Think Voice Assistants are a Good Idea?

The news is full of it lately: voice assistants. Everybody who is anybody is starting to test with it, from news websites to e-commerce. But why, and what does the future hold? Why voice assistants? ​​Ever since the beginning of the age of computers we have mostly been dependent on interfaces that require a screen […]

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Why and How I Started the Bits vs Bytes podcast

Around July of 2018 I started looking at doing a podcast, one of the reasons being that I had just discovered the phenomenon of listening to podcasts in my commute to work. I was amazed about how much quality content there is available in podcasts of 30 to 60 minutes.

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Gitlab, and the reasons why we moved away from Github

A lot of people lately have been looking into moving from Github to Gitlab. Mostly because of Microsoft’s acquisition of Github (set to finish late 2018). I do have my own views on this acquisition, but that’s not the point of this blog. My reasons are to really get into why we (at Tevreden.nl) chose […]

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Starting a new leadership position? Look out for these 5 pitfalls

You finally got that promotion you have always been dreaming of, you get to lead a team! That’s great of course, but if you have never held a leadership position it can be pretty daunting at first. In this article I will be touching on 5 points that I myself experienced from going from a […]

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Analyzing images using AWS Rekognition

In my last blog you could read about setting up a serverless microservice and in this blog I would like to also touch on something serverless. Image analysis is a complex an tedious process and requires a lot of machine learning to get right, but fortunately Amazon has a solution for this called Rekognition. It’s […]

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Create a serverless microservice with Zappa, Flask & AWS Lambda

As you may have seen around the web lately, there is a lot of buzz about serverless architectures and what they mean to modern web development en hosting. To understand more about what serverless computing is and what it can do for you, it’s best to check out the Wikipedia page on serverless computing.