Why Kubernetes needs an LTS

There is no denying that containers have taken over the mindset of most modern teams. With containers, comes the need to have orchestration to run those containers and currently there is no real alternative to Kubernetes. Love it or hate it, it has become the standard platform we have largely…

AI is Already Killing Books

I love reading. It is the thing on this earth that brings me the most joy. I attribute no small part of who I am and how I think to the authors who I have encountered in my life. The speed by which LLMs are destroying this ecosystem is a…

Help Everyone Do Better Security

One interesting thing about the contrast between infrastructure and security is the expectation of open-source software. When a common problem arises we all experience, a company will launch a product to solve this problem. In infrastructure, typically the core tool is open-source and free to use, with some value-add services…

Can We Make Idiot-Proof Infrastructure pt1?

One complaint I hear all the time online and in real life is how complicated infrastructure is. You either commit to a vendor platform like ECS, Lightsail, Elastic Beanstalk or Cloud Run or you go all in with something like Kubernetes. The first are easy to run but lock you…

Terraform is dead; Long live Pulumi?

The best tools in tech scale. They're not always easy to learn, they might take some time to get good with but once you start to use them they just stick with you forever. On the command line, things like gawk and sed jump to mind, tools that…

Adventures in IPv6 Part 2

As I discussed in Part 1 I've converted this site over to pure IPv6. Well at least as pure as I could get away with. I still have some problems though, chief among them that I cannot send emails with the Ghost CMS. I've switched from…