Alex Seifert

Meetings have always been the worst part about any job for me. They make me anxious and stress me out so I have developed strategies for coping with them.

Using Redis Sentinel with Docker and Marathon is a relatively complex procedure that requires every instance of Redis to be able to communicate with all other instances.

This article describes how to create a failover solution using Redis Sentinel and Docker Compose.

With so many different programming languages available, it is not always easy to choose the right one for a project. In this article, we will explore some basic criteria for picking the right one.

In the early-1990s, a lesser-known operating system was born named BeOS. It was an operating system that was ahead of its time, but was never able to gather much support.

I am very happy to announce a brand new project of mine called Developer’s Notebook, a blog and news website with content for developers.

Trying out a new technology can be a bit tricky, so a set of specs for a test app is necessary to give the tests meaning.

I don’t like clutter. In fact, I am very picky about what I install on my computer which is one reason I love virtual machines to experiment with new technologies.

Since I am constantly starting a new project, I got tired of always having to set up each web app from scratch. Therefore, I decided to create a couple of boilerplate apps in Node.js and TypeScript.

In this post, I talk about which productivity tools I use for my work as a developer, my personal development projects and my personal life.

Several years ago, I bought an old, colorful iMac G3 running Mac OS 9. It runs my old software wonderfully, but an emulated version of Mac OS 9 on my modern MacBook Pro is just so much more convenient.

I recently wrote a small script using TypeScript that can be used to determine the size of the view port using the breakpoints as defined by Bootstrap.