My entire career there has been a wide gap between CLI applications and GUI applications. GUIs are easier to use at first, they have options to provide more direct feedback to users, but they also can have odd or confusing behavior. Endlessly spinning wheels, error messages that don't…
Modern infrastructure work is, by many measures, better than it has ever been. We live in a time when a lot of the routine daily problems have been automated away by cloud providers, tooling or just improved workflows. However in the place of watching OS upgrades has come the endless…
Finding new CIDR blocks in a VPC can get increasingly time consuming as you grow. I found a nice little tool which will quickly output to STDOUT the available ranges. You can find that here. You can install it with: pip install aws-cidr-finder Run with: aws-cidr-finder --profile aws-profile-name Output looks…
New AWS blueprint project gives you a much better new EKS cluster experience. After reading the terraform they provide, this should be the way we all do it from now on. You can find the new project here.…
I know I'm probably the last one to find this out, but this has been an issue for a long time for me. I've been constantly building and storing SQL files in the actual container layers, thinking that was the correct way to do it. Thankfully,…
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One surreal experience as my career has progressed is the intense feeling of deja vu you get hit with during meetings. From time to time, someone will mention something and you'll flash back to the same meeting you had about this a few jobs ago. A decision was…