Terraform as the IaC Standard Across Hundreds of AWS Accounts
How we standardized Terraform across hundreds of AWS accounts with shared modules, remote state, and workspace conventions
- terraform
- cloud
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Ideas tested in public.
Essays on autonomous agents, systems architecture, technical leadership, and the work of making software dependable.
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Dockerizing Legacy Apps: From Monolith to ECS
How we containerized a monolithic Java application and deployed it to AWS ECS with a full CI/CD pipeline
- cloud
- docker
- aws
- ecs
Migrating Monolithic Apps to AWS: The 6Rs Framework in Practice
Enterprise cloud migration is not a single strategy; it is six strategies applied systematically across hundreds of applications
- cloud
re:Invent 2016: Serverless Goes Mainstream
AWS re:Invent just wrapped up and the message is clear: serverless is no longer experimental, it is the direction
- cloud
AWS Organizations and Multi-Account Strategy
Designing a multi-account AWS architecture for enterprise workloads using Organizations, SCPs, and IAM patterns
- cloud
Enterprise Migration: Lift-and-Shift vs. Refactor
When to move workloads to the cloud as-is and when to redesign them, learned from real enterprise migration decisions
- cloud
Starting at a Telecom Giant: Enterprise Cloud Architect
My first corporate role in America, designing cloud architecture at enterprise scale
- career
- cloud
Grad School, Research, and Cloud Computing
Reflecting on a year of graduate research, distributed systems learnings, and the widening bridge between academia and industry
- cloud
- career
Red Hat Acquires Ansible
Red Hat acquires Ansible and the configuration management landscape shifts, with implications for how we think about infrastructure automation
- cloud
- terraform
re:Invent 2015: AWS Is Unstoppable
AWS re:Invent 2015 showcased an ecosystem in overdrive, with new services, aggressive pricing, and a vision for cloud that keeps widening
- cloud
Architecting WordPress on AWS: EC2, RDS, and S3
A technical deep dive into the architecture decisions, performance tuning, and lessons learned from running WordPress ecommerce on AWS
- cloud
Kubernetes 1.0 and the Birth of CNCF
Kubernetes hits 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation forms, signaling that container orchestration is ready for the enterprise
- kubernetes
- cloud
AWS-Hosted WordPress Ecommerce POC
Building a proof of concept ecommerce site with WordPress, WooCommerce, and AWS services to bridge theory and practice
- cloud
Cloud Computing Research with Dr. Young Lee
Diving into cloud computing research in grad school, exploring virtualization, resource allocation, and the academic lens on distributed systems
- cloud
- career
2014: The Year of Containers
Looking back at a year that fundamentally changed how the industry thinks about deploying and running software
- cloud
- kubernetes
re:Invent 2014: Lambda, Aurora, and the Serverless Future
AWS Lambda might be the most important cloud announcement since EC2 and I am still wrapping my head around it
- cloud
Terraform: The IaC Tool I Have Been Waiting For
HashiCorp just released Terraform and it fills the infrastructure-as-code gap that has been bothering me for months
- terraform
- cloud
Docker 1.0: Production Ready
Docker hits version 1.0 and the container ecosystem is exploding in every direction
- cloud
- kubernetes
Google Announces Kubernetes
Google just open-sourced their container orchestration system and this could change everything about how we run infrastructure
- kubernetes
- cloud
CoreOS: A Container-Optimized OS
CoreOS is rethinking what a server operating system should be in a world built on containers
- cloud
- kubernetes
AWS re:Invent 2013: Announcements That Matter
Following AWS re:Invent remotely and picking out the announcements that will actually change how we work
- cloud
What Microservices Actually Mean
Everyone is talking about microservices but most explanations miss the point entirely
- cloud
Chef vs Ansible: Which Tool?
A hands-on comparison of Chef and Ansible from someone who actually needs to pick one for production infrastructure
- cloud
- terraform
Security Automation: Days to Hours Provisioning
How we cut server provisioning from five days to under four hours using automation and VMware templates
- cloud