Thoughts from Kevin Veen-Birkenbach
Why should one mount the Linux /home/ directory instead of using a symbolic link?
Simple answer from my side: The package manager pacman and I assume also other package managers may delete the symbolic link during the update process and create a new home directory instead.
If you need to store your home data on another storage then your root partition, consider to mount your home directory via fstab.
As a part of my GPM IPMA Level D certification I had to write a project report according to the requirements of IPMA. IPMA requires to use the classical project management tools to manage the project for the IPMA Level D report. Because of my practical experience with the negative aspects of classical project management methods I decided to use Scrum as an agile framework inside of the classical project management frame. This merges the best of both worlds: The theoretical predictability of the classical project management with the agility of Scrum. Hybrid project management can be a good solution for every company which stucks for external reasons in the classical project management frame, but wants to use a more agile project management framework. In my opinion specially projects in the public sector can be improved by using this tool set.
My IPMA Level D project management report can be found here:
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/infinito/blob/master/management/project_report_DE.pdf
RAID is a system to prevent data lost by mirroring two storage devices. In my opinion it should be a part of a server data backup strategy.
I have much experiences with setting up software RAID1’s. In the most of the cases I use a btrfs which mirrors the devices of an physical RAID0 cluster. A repositories which shows an example for how I use a software RAID1 can be found here:
For a coding challenge I programmed once an almost framework less online shop in a short time frame by using full stack technologies. As relational database I used MySQL. The back-end is programmed with PHP and the dependencies are managed with composer. On the front-end side HTML, CSS, JQuery, Javascript and Bootstrap are used. The code quality was improved by the use of PHPUnit. For easier shipping the applications runs in an Docker container. The full requirements for the coding challenge and the whole code base can be found in this repository:
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/coding-challenge-online-shop
I’m experienced in setting up encrypted server systems. This includes the encryption of the storage device and the encryption of the communication. The storage encryption I manage via LUKS. A decryption is possible over SSH and Dropbear. An example server configuration can be found in the following repository: