What if Kubernetes was idiot-proof? Love/Hate Relationship AWS and I have spent a frightening amount of time together. In that time I have come to love that weird web UI with bizarre application naming. It's like asking an alien not familiar with humans to name things. Why…
I've wanted to write a guide for tech workers looking to leave the US and move to Denmark for awhile. I made the move over 4 years ago and finally feel like I can write on the topic with enough detail to answer most questions. Denmark gets a…
And we're all doing it wrong (including me) I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking this is…
It's all advertising, all the way down. The Robots are Coming My entire life automation has been presented as a threat. It is hard to measure how often business has threatened this to keep wages down and keep workers increasing productivity. While the mechanism of threatened automation changes…
I, like the entire internet, has enjoyed watching the journey of 37Signals from cloud to managed datacenter. For those unfamiliar, it's worth a read here. This has spawned endless debates about whether the cloud is worth it or should we all be buying hardware again, which is always…
I recently rewrote a system to output a YAML to get a bunch of information for internal users. However we use Confluence as our primary information sharing system. So I needed to parse the YAML file on GitHub (where I was pushing it after every generation), generate some HTML and…
I'm trying to use more YAML in my Terraform as a source of truth instead of endlessly repeating the creation of resources and to make CLIs to automate the creation of the YAML. One area that I've had a lot of luck with this is GCP…
Imagine you had a dog. You got the dog when it was young, trained and raised it. This animal was a part of your family and you gave it little collars and cute little clothes with your family name on it. The dog came to special events and soon thought…