Articles

April 19, 2024
Using Secrets In A Lambda
April 17, 2024
Use Just In Time Elevated Access
April 16, 2024
Setting A Deployment's Replicas And Having A Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
April 15, 2024
SQLite in Production
April 12, 2024
Caching Docker Layers In GitHub Actions
April 11, 2024
Don't Define The Same Env Var Multiple Times With Kubernetes
April 10, 2024
Terraform 1.8.0 Is Out
April 9, 2024
How To Defend A Shared Database From Noisy Neighbors
April 8, 2024
Defending A Single Shared Database Instance
April 5, 2024
Upcoming Kubernetes 1.30 Changes
April 4, 2024
Merging Helm Chart Values With Kustomize
April 3, 2024
Create IAM Users And Roles Instead Of Using Root AWS Account
April 2, 2024
Enable MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) On Your Root AWS Account
April 1, 2024
What Are Kubernetes Service Accounts Used For?
March 29, 2024
Hidden Costs Of Managed Cloud Databases
March 28, 2024
Kubernetes ConfigMap Best Practices
March 27, 2024
Focus On Software Delivery Fundamentals
March 26, 2024
Routing ALB Traffic With A Header
March 25, 2024
Creating A Terraform Workspace If It Doesn't Exist
March 22, 2024
Separate Build And Runtime Secrets
March 21, 2024
Deploy More
March 20, 2024
How To Find AWS VPC's DNS Server
March 19, 2024
Github Actions Composite Actions Vs. Reusable Workflows
March 18, 2024
Wait For Daemonset Pods Before Starting Pods
March 15, 2024
Google's Product-Focused SRE
March 14, 2024
Create Executables From A Docker Image
March 13, 2024
IAM Policies With Principal Org Ids
March 12, 2024
Is IaC Only Useful For Larger Systems?
March 11, 2024
Speed Up Docker Builds With Cache Mounts
March 8, 2024
How To Only Run GitHub Actions Steps If Files Change
March 7, 2024
Kubernetes VS Code Extension
March 6, 2024
Loki Vs. Elasticsearch For Log Aggregation
March 5, 2024
How To Send Docker Logs From EC2 To CloudWatch
March 4, 2024
Encourage Your Platform Engineers To Talk To Their Users
March 1, 2024
Test Your Helm Charts
February 29, 2024
Mirror GitHub To AWS Code Commit
February 28, 2024
Don't Couple Your Deployments
February 27, 2024
Traefik As A TCP Reverse Proxy
February 26, 2024
AWS Account ID Best Practices
February 23, 2024
Dumping/Restoring Postgres With Ansible
February 22, 2024
Thoughts on the Kubernetes Secret Store CSI Driver with AWS
February 21, 2024
Routing Traffic To Multiple EKS Clusters With AWS ALB
February 20, 2024
Deleting RDS Automated Snapshots
February 19, 2024
How To Set startingDeadlineSeconds For Kubernetes CronJobs
February 16, 2024
How To Use Liveness Probes In Kubernetes
February 15, 2024
Ansible With AWS SSM Inventory
February 14, 2024
Setting Default CPU/Memory Requests For A Namespace
February 13, 2024
Infrastructure Decisions At A Startup
February 12, 2024
Don't Use SSH Keys With AWS EC2
February 9, 2024
Lowering AWS Secrets Manager Costs
February 8, 2024
How Does Kubectl SSH Work?
February 7, 2024
How To SSH Into An EKS Worker Node
February 6, 2024
Terraform Tip - Make Your Resource Names Unique
February 5, 2024
How To Debug GitHub Actions With SSH
February 2, 2024
How To Bootstrap Terraform S3 And DynamoDB
February 1, 2024
Use ipcalc to compute subnets
January 31, 2024
Never Make VPCs With Overlapping CIDRs
January 30, 2024
Don't Pick AWS us-east (if you can)
January 29, 2024
How To Get An AWS Secrets Manager Secret ARN By Key
January 26, 2024
Guide To Testing Terraform
January 25, 2024
Follow-Up Regarding Large Scale Changes
January 24, 2024
Dealing with Large Scale Changes (LSCs)
January 23, 2024
Terraform 1.7 Is Out
January 22, 2024
Do Pre-Mortems For Your Projects
January 19, 2024
We're Data-Oriented
January 18, 2024
Krew for kubectl
January 17, 2024
Conways Law and Ownership
January 16, 2024
Kanban for DevOps
January 15, 2024
Podman vs. Docker
January 12, 2024
Upgrade Your Kubectl Terraform Provider
January 11, 2024
Demonstrating Impact As An Infrastructure Engineer
January 10, 2024
Podman as an alternative to Docker Desktop
January 9, 2024
Patching Multiple Objects At Once with Kustomize
January 8, 2024
Don't set Kubernetes CPU limits
January 5, 2024
Minimally Viable Platform Engineering
January 4, 2024
Sharing an ALB with AWS Load Balancer Controller
January 3, 2024
Reasons Not To Use A WAF
January 2, 2024
The API Gateway Pattern for Microservices
January 1, 2024
Five Whys Outside of Incident Post-Mortems
December 29, 2023
Lessons Learned Being Consistent
December 28, 2023
Scaling Kubernetes Pods with External Metrics
December 27, 2023
Graceful Shutdowns for Services on Kubernetes
December 26, 2023
Escaping Docker Containers
December 25, 2023
Typesense for Open Source Search
December 23, 2023
AWS's New EKS Upgrade Insights
December 21, 2023
Set up tfsec for your Terraform
December 20, 2023
Use OpenTelemetry
December 19, 2023
New EKS IAM Auth Changes
December 18, 2023
Terraform doesn't have to manage everything
December 15, 2023
AWS DMS Gotcha - Losing Column Types
December 14, 2023
Differences between Kubernetes Annotations and Labels
December 13, 2023
Split your Kubernetes Infrastructure and Application Deployments
December 12, 2023
You probably don't need zero downtime
December 11, 2023
Testcontainers for Integration Tests
December 8, 2023
Use AWS CloudFront with HTTP Backends
December 7, 2023
Use Slack's Kubernetes Webhook Project
December 6, 2023
How to prevent your cluster autoscaler from evicting workloads
December 5, 2023
AWS API Gateways can return mock responses
December 4, 2023
How to find all subdomains for a domain
December 1, 2023
CronJobs should be interruptible
November 30, 2023
Intro to Kubernetes Pod Disruption Budgets
November 29, 2023
Vantage for better AWS Instance Prices
November 28, 2023
Kail to tail kubernetes logs
November 27, 2023
Using OpenTofu with Hashicorp Terraform Cloud
November 24, 2023
Don't use the default namespace in Kubernetes
November 23, 2023
Focus on the Fundamentals
November 22, 2023
Searching Kubernetes Logs Without A Logging Platform
November 21, 2023
You can use Kustomize and Helm together
November 20, 2023
When to use Kustomize and Helm
November 17, 2023
Reasons why your cluster autoscaler isn't working
November 16, 2023
Learn faster by pushing limits
June 28, 2023
Project-based Resources to Learn EKS
June 24, 2023
Thoughts on Digital Ocean K8S (DOKS) in Production
May 27, 2023
Just start with copy and paste
May 12, 2023
Strategies for Success: Lessons from Dota 2 for Aspiring Software Engineers
March 25, 2023
K9s - A Terminal UI for Kubernetes
March 2, 2023
Kubecost after a month
January 29, 2023
Kubecost vs. Opencost
January 28, 2023
Breaking down EKS costs with Kubecost & Opencost
January 5, 2023
Monitor symptoms, not causes
January 5, 2023
Rotate your CircleCI secrets immediately
January 2, 2023
Happy New Year 2023
December 30, 2022
Every company has an "old" production AWS account
October 29, 2022
How to enable IAM and AWS SSO access to EKS
October 23, 2022
How to build amd64 docker images on Apple Silicon
June 21, 2022
EKS Cluster Creators Have Admin Access
March 20, 2022
Setting up an AWS to Digital Ocean Site-to-Site VPN with strongSwan
February 21, 2022
GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner Observability and Monitoring
January 21, 2022
Speed Up CI Docker I/O Intensive Workloads with tmpfs
December 28, 2021
Healthy services are regularly deployed
September 26, 2021
Kubernetes port-forwarding for dev
September 8, 2021
GitHub Actions Limitations and Gotchas
July 1, 2020
Setting up pull-request review environments
March 21, 2020
Shell customizations that make my life easier
January 21, 2019
When to use loop/recur in Clojure?
May 14, 2017
Clojure Web Frameworks And Comparisons
May 12, 2017
Node.js and Javascript Vs. Clojure
April 23, 2017
How To Organize A Clojure Project And Its Dependencies
April 22, 2017
What Editor/IDE Should You Use For Clojure?
February 12, 2017
How To Understand Clojure Stacktraces And Error Messages
October 26, 2016
A Clojure REPL Workflow For Beginners
July 17, 2016
How To Rapidly Improve At Any Programming Language
June 11, 2016
Clojure Idioms, Patterns, and Style
January 4, 2016
A Tutorial To Stuart Sierra's Component
December 31, 2015
Ruby Vs. Clojure
October 18, 2015
Managing Different Environment Settings In Clojure With Leiningen
August 15, 2015
A Tutorial Of Prismatic's Schema Library For Clojure
August 10, 2015
A Neat Pattern With Juxt
June 6, 2015
Setting Up A Node.cljs Project With Leiningen and NPM
May 31, 2015
How To Refer To A Clojure Record In Another Namespace
May 27, 2015
Third Party Libraries In Clojurescript REPL
May 17, 2015
Cider Refresh And Undefining Vars
September 11, 2014
An Introduction To Pry, A Ruby REPL