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Lift Completed, Now Shift: Making the Insurance Hub Kubernetes-Native (Enough)

2026-02-05 Java Go Write-Up Igor Baiborodine

The Insurance Hub migration continues. Following Phase 1’s “lift” —provisioning clusters and infrastructure—we are now focusing on the “shift” required to make the legacy system run on this new foundation. This article summarizes the targeted changes needed to move our existing Java services into Kubernetes.

From Docker Compose to Kubernetes: Lifting the Insurance Hub into the Cloud

2025-11-11 Java Go Write-Up Igor Baiborodine

In the inaugural post of the “Insurance Hub: The Way to Go” series, I unveiled my ambitious strategy: modernizing a Java-based insurance system into a cloud-native Go application. With that roadmap firmly in place, the past two months have been dedicated to hands-on engineering, transitioning the vision from architectural diagrams to tangible implementation. This article chronicles the execution of Phase 1—a foundational “lift and shift” that establishes our new cloud environment.

From Java to Go: Kicking Off the Insurance Hub Transformation

2025-07-28 Java Go Write-Up Igor Baiborodine

After years spent mastering Go through books, hands-on exercises, and migrating my Campsite Booking API from Java, I’m setting out on my most ambitious project yet: transforming a Java-based insurance system into a modern, cloud-native Go application. This post marks the start of a comprehensive migration journey—one that will dive into every aspect of system modernization, from architecture redesign to deployment strategy.

Bilberry Hugo Theme: Summing Up the Year 2023

2024-01-01 Bilberry Jamstack Write-Up Igor Baiborodine

How quickly time flies. It seems that we recently summed up the results of 2022 for the Bilberry Hugo theme, but 2024 has already arrived, and again, it is time to take stock of what has been achieved over the past year.

Campsite Booking API : Revisited 3

2023-11-17 Java Write-Up Igor Baiborodine

Another year passed, and I decided to return to this project again and implement a new batch of improvements. So, continuing the series “Campsite Booking API (Java)” with this installment, I detail changes to the project and its current state.

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