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Rick van Lieshout
CTO, software architect and engineering leader focused on building great software, growing teams and solving complex technical challenges.
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Featured Work
A few open-source projects and tools I've built or maintained over the years.
Latest Articles
Monoliths to Microservices: Finding the Right Moment
Choosing between modular monoliths and microservices is not about trends, it is about timing, team maturity, and understanding trade-offs.
Read (6 min read)What is Software Architecture (Really)?
Software architecture isn’t a fixed design or a set of diagrams, it’s the evolving set of decisions that guide how a system behaves and grows with its team.
Read (8 min read)A Hidden Life of Pain, Sorrow, Misery and Rampant Emotions
A deeply personal story about grief, memory, and the long road through the shadows. For anyone who’s lost someone they can never get back.
Read (16 min read)Infrastructure as Code - Simplifying My Homelab Setup with Portainer GitOps
How I've simplified my homelab by combining the ease of Unraid storage management with Portainer's GitOps feature to implement Infrastructure as Code.
Read (3 min read)Infrastructure as code - Service uptime monitoring
In this post I demonstrate how I've moved from an old and simple UptimeKuma setup to a setup with AutoKuma so I can register my monitors with 'infrastructure as code'
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