Writing from 2018

December 22, 20188 min read

Mentoring Engineers and Leading a Team of Ten

What I have learned about mentoring, team building, and the transition from individual contributor to engineering leader

December 3, 20187 min read

A practitioner's take on the AWS re:Invent 2018 announcements that will actually change how we build

October 29, 20187 min read

Microsoft closed its acquisition of GitHub on October 26 and the open source world is processing what this means

September 18, 20187 min read

Designing IAM policies, SCPs, and permission boundaries that enforce least privilege across hundreds of AWS accounts

August 30, 20188 min read

Designing data tier architectures that bridge serverless Lambda functions with traditional Oracle databases on AWS

July 12, 20187 min read

I passed the CKA exam and here is what it actually takes to master Kubernetes administration

May 20, 20187 min read

How getting involved with CNCF and the Kubernetes community changed the way I think about infrastructure

March 15, 20187 min read

Taking delivery of a Tesla Model 3 and experiencing what it means when your car is a software platform

February 9, 20186 min read

SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy two days ago and I cannot stop thinking about what it means for engineering