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Marcus Craske

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About Me

I'm a full-stack software engineer 👨‍💻. Currently based in London, UK 🇬🇧.

You can e-mail me at [email protected].

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QCON London 2023: Paving the Road

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My fifth year attending QCON London, a conference focused on knowledge-sharing high-level emerging trends and best-practices in software engineering, featuring many world-leading organisations and subject-matter experts. And this year did not disappoint, with the evolution of paved roads.

Smart Home

Smart home dashboard

Automated lighting, hoovering, heating, energy management and information. A combination of off-the-shelf and hand-cranked code running on a Kubernetes cluster.

Mostly completed in December 2019, and tweaked throughout 2020 and 2021.

Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster

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In this article, I setup:

  • A Kubernetes cluster using the new Raspberry Pi 4.
  • Kubernetes Dashboard.
  • Ingress using NGINX.

Many articles already exist for older Debian distributions and Raspberry Pis, so hopefully this updated set of steps helps others save time.

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My Food Hygiene Ratings

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My hobby Android and iOS app to allow users to find hygiene ratings of establishments (restaurants, bars, shops etc).

QCON London 2019

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I got the opportunity this year to attend the QCON London conference, ran my InfoQ, and would absolutely recommend it to anyone interested or working in the software engineering industry, that’s proficient with technical language and subjects. Most talks were aimed at a general...