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oschvron Live map of public transport in Belgium

Wow very useful thank you !

> The expenditure of European organisations on cloud and software services is around €400 billion per year for 2024. Of this spending, €330 billion went to US companies, representing 83% of the market share held by a small number of players of a single nationality [1].

For us folks living and working in the EU, we've all heard the same piece of news over and over for the last couple of years. The EU's over reliance on non-EU cloud (mainly US) providers poses an existential risk for businesses and institutions who depend on these services to operate.

Even the EU Commission just launched the EU Cloud and AI Act [2].

As a DevOps Engineer / SRE working in a company based in Brussels, I keep hearing this across the board (through colleagues and friends in other companies). But frankly, I have not seen any initiative that actually takes matters into action.

So I created movetoeu.cloud [3].

The repo contains an opinionated exercise to create a basic network + Kubernetes cluster in OVHcloud.

If you follow the instructions, it'll take you no more than 1h (OVH quirks) to go from zero to running kubectl commands against your fully EU-based infrastructure.

What do you think?

[1] https://www.cigref.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Cigref-A... [2] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cloud-and-... [3] https://movetoeu.cloud

oschvron Kubernetes Bin Packing Vizualiser

Just did this very quick exercise, to visualize resource bin packing and calculate a ballpark pricing

What do you think?

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/reso...

oschvron Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

Wait you have 10 kids !!?!? Much respect

oschvron Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2025)

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | EUROPE

I’m a cloud infrastructure and DevOps specialist who helps startups and scale-ups build reliable, cost-effective systems. I bring deep expertise in architecting and managing mission-critical infrastructure that served hundreds of thousands to millions of users. I’ve been working in the fintech space for the last 6y

- Cloud Platforms: AWS (Solutions Architect Profesional), GCP (Professional Cloud Architect), Oracle Cloud - Kubernetes & Containers: (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), Helm, Docker, GKE - Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, GitOps with ArgoCD - Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Firebase - Development: Python (FastAPI), React Native, React - Security: PKI/mTLS, SIEM/XDR, ISO 27001 compliance - Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana

I’m looking (preferably) for short to mid term contracts (3-12 months)

I speak English, Spanish and French

Hit me up hey@oschvr.com

oschvron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Remote: Yes (I can travel around Europe)

Willing to relocate: No (

Technologies:

  o Cloud engineering: AWS, GCP, OCI

  o Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

  o Database/datastore management: MongoDB, Firebase, Redis, PostgresQL, Elasticsearch

  o Operative Systems: Linux/UNIX, macOS

  o Operations: git, shell[bash, zsh, fish], Kafka, RabbitMQ

  o Deployments: Jenkins, Github Actions

  o Application development: Backend: Python, SQL | Frontend: React, React Native[Expo]

  o Monitoring: Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager

Résumé/CV: https://oschvr.com/documents/cv2025.pdf

Email: hey@oschvr.com

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I was the 1st employee of https://leantech.me/ and I saw and helped it grow from the 1st line of code to >1B USD of total processed value.

When I left I was managing 2 sets of regional deployments (dev, stage, prod) and for a little over a year (on my watch) we had >99.9 of uptime (one I'm super proud of)

I'm a full-stack technologist (>10 YoE) (specialising into SRE/Infra/Cloud/Platform Engineering), looking to work with smart, curious and driven individuals.

If you're super passionate about what you're building, and you think I can help. Send me an email -> hey@oschvr.com

oschvron Show HN: Convert Large CSV/XLSX to JSON or XML in Browser

Looks like you made it in lovable. It has that characteristic UI.

If so, how much time did it take you?

oschvron Show HN: We are building the next DocuSign

The lovable favicon makes me trust it less. It means the code is not done by an accountable human that can do something if my documents get leaked or your site hacked.

For a prototype it's ok.

oschvron Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one

I'm in EU, sad it's not available there.

I'm fed up with LinkedIn

oschvron Hello Instant Infra

I'm launching a content channel around cloud infrastructure and having fun poking around with the tooling and the services.

I wanna hear what you guys have to say :) Do you think it's a good idea?

oschvron How to Fix the 'React Native App Crashes on Launch' Error?

ADB logcat is your friend.

Build the app for Android, connect your phone via usb, make sure adb is running and try this https://gist.github.com/giacomocerquone/cc195287d1104c8e288a...

oschvron GitHub Experiencing Major Outages

https://isgithub.live/

oschvron FOSDEM 2025

Nice ! I live very close, will definitely assist!

If anyone wants to join me, hit me up !

oschvron The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)

> "If you're a security practitioner, teaching yourself how to hack is also part of the "Hacking is Cool" dumb idea."

lol'd at the irony of the fact that this was posted here, Hacker News...

oschvron Show HN: I built a backend so simple that it fits in a YAML file

Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/927

oschvron Oracle dumps Terraform for OpenTofu

Full circle of corporate facepalm

oschvron Show HN: I created an app for you to be a more unpredictable romantic partner

Came in to say this. Thanks. Looks interesting

oschvron Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun

I found me and my post there ! Nice

oschvron Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play

First time father here and curious about your comment.

Can you elaborate on what was are your grounds for labeling yourself as a bad father?

oschvron In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)

I use minikube daily for local setup works perfect

oschvron Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

Could you elaborate on how to do this?

oschvron Learnings from our years of Kubernetes in production

This brings so much painful memories of an entire weekend I had to spend renewing cluster certificates one by one whilst being yelled at that we were not making any money.

Good thing our control planes are now managed. I learnt so much about kubeadm and the inner workings of k8s but I'm not sure I wanna go over it again

oschvron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)

same here

oschvron Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

Really cool, I'll give it a try

oschvron FOSDEM 2024 Schedule

I just relocated to Brussels and turns out I live 10-15 min by public transport from the venue !

I've been looking forward to attending for a couple years now, and now I definitely can't let this pass.

It would be my first time attending, does anyone want to join me ? I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I don't want to go alone hehe... Hit me up :) (my username @ protonmail.com)

oschvron Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

HN kiss of death

oschvron Kami home camera app suddenly started displaying ads in the app

What a shitty move.. someone told me about these cameras..I guess I'll have to pass

oschvron OpenAI CEO's threat to quit EU draws lawmaker backlash

What makes you say that ?

oschvron [dead]

Another A dumbed down status page that intends to make fun of the fact that Github is going down almost on a daily basis.

Companion blog post: https://oschvr.com/posts/isgithublive/

oschvron Ask HN: What did you learn last week?

I learnt how to backup data from Prometheus stored in a Persistent Volume in Kubernetes. many ways of doing this but the one I found backs up a tar to a bucket, which is pretty convenient.