AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Review
AWS EKS Review…
Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made
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…
The hunt for a better Dockerfile
Time to thank Dockerfiles for their service and send them on their way For why I don't think Dockerfiles are good enough anymore, click here. After writing about my dislike of Dockerfiles and what I think is a major regression in the tools Operations teams had to work…
DevOps Crash Course - Section 2: Servers
Section 2 of our DevOps Crash Course…
DevOps Engineer Crash Course - Section 1
The first crash course in how to successfully step into a DevOps role.…
How does FaceTime Work?
As an ex-pat living in Denmark, I use FaceTime audio a lot. Not only is it simple to use and reliable, but the sound quality is incredible. For those of you old enough to remember landlines, it reminds me of those but if you had a good headset. When we…
Easier alternative to Nginx + Lets Encrypt with Caddy Docker Proxy
So this is a request I get probably 4-5 times a year. "I'm looking to host a small application in docker and I need it to be easy to run through a GitLab/GitHub CICD pipeline, it needs SSL and I never ever want to think about…
TIL Command to get memory usage by process in Linux
If like me you are constantly trying to figure out using a combination of ps and free to see what is eating all your memory, check this out: ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size | \ awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; printf("%13.2f Mb ",hr) } { for ( x=…