Nicolas Frankel

Technologist focusing on cloud-native technologies, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and system observability. His focus revolves around creating technical content, delivering talks, and engaging with developer communities to promote the adoption of modern software practices. With a strong background in software, he has worked extensively with the JVM, applying his expertise across various industries. In addition to his technical work, he is the author of several books and regularly shares insights through his blog and open-source contributions.

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Nicolas Frankel Feb 13, 2025 4,243 views

Remote Development Made Simple with DevPod

DevPod is a nice tool around your toolbelt that allows your development team(s) to share the same machine configuration without hassle.

Developer Tools

Nicolas Frankel Jan 30, 2025 2,392 views

My first steps with Playwright

In my previous company, I developed a batch job that tracked metrics across social media, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Bluesky, …

Tutorials

Nicolas Frankel Jan 30, 2025 2,965 views

A solution to the problem of cluster-wide CRDs

The problem of some Kubernetes objects: they are cluster-wide and lock all teams working on the same cluster to use the same version.

Cloud Use Cases

Nicolas Frankel Jan 26, 2025 7 views

On inheritance and subtyping

Java is the first language I learned in my career. Its structure is foundational in my early years of understanding programming concepts. …

Opinion

Nicolas Frankel Jan 15, 2025 2,590 views

An Example of HACS: Adaptive Lighting

Configure the Adaptive Lighting integration to our Home Assistant and benefit from different intensities based on the time of the day.

Java

Nicolas Frankel Jan 12, 2025 7 views

The Home Assistant companion app

Besides a regular webapp and a Mac app, which uses the same endpoints as the webapp, Home Assistant also provides mobile apps. In this post, …

Java

Nicolas Frankel Jan 6, 2025 3,817 views

2024 in Retrospective: Nicolas Frankel

For the first article of 2025, I'm continuing my retrospective series!

Opinion

Nicolas Frankel Dec 9, 2024 4,704 views

The Home Assistant Model

Learn about the model objects available in Home Assistant. After that, migrate from the proprietary Philips Hue automation to Home …

Developer Tools Research Tools

Nicolas Frankel Dec 9, 2024 4,020 views

Why Home Assistant

I have many different "smart" devices at home and no centralized system to manage them all. Plus, I'm concerned about privacy and am an …

Developer Tools Research Tools

Nicolas Frankel Dec 8, 2024 6 views

Replace Philips Hue automation with Home Assistant's

I've been the happy owner of several Philips Hue-connected lights for a few years. Some of them are coloured, some of them regular. In …

Java

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