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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
192 essays and counting
K9s GUI: Making Kubernetes Accessible Beyond the Terminal
Building a graphical interface for Kubernetes that complements K9s and kubectl, designed for teams where not everyone lives in the terminal
CKAD Certification: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Passed the CKAD exam and earned another Kubernetes certification, reinforcing my conviction that container orchestration is fundamental infrastructure
Kubernetes 1.19: The Platform Is Mature
Kubernetes 1.19 extends the support window to one year and moves Ingress to GA, signaling that the platform has crossed from innovation to infrastructure
re:Invent 2019: Outposts, EKS on Fargate, and the Hybrid Future
Key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019, including Outposts general availability, EKS on Fargate, and what they mean for enterprise infrastructure
The Rise of GitOps: ArgoCD and Flux
GitOps is changing how we think about Kubernetes deployments by making Git the single source of truth for cluster state
CKA: Becoming a Certified Kubernetes Administrator
I passed the CKA exam and here is what it actually takes to master Kubernetes administration
Contributing to CNCF: My Kubernetes Open Source Journey
How getting involved with CNCF and the Kubernetes community changed the way I think about infrastructure
Kubernetes vs ECS: An Enterprise Container Orchestration Comparison
When to choose Kubernetes and when to choose ECS, based on real experience operating both at enterprise scale
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
2014: The Year of Containers
Looking back at a year that fundamentally changed how the industry thinks about deploying and running software
Docker 1.0: Production Ready
Docker hits version 1.0 and the container ecosystem is exploding in every direction
Google Announces Kubernetes
Google just open-sourced their container orchestration system and this could change everything about how we run infrastructure
CoreOS: A Container-Optimized OS
CoreOS is rethinking what a server operating system should be in a world built on containers
Docker Changes Everything About Deployment
Docker 0.1 just dropped and containers are suddenly accessible to everyone, not just kernel wizards
Linux Containers Before Docker: LXC, Cgroups, and Namespaces
The container landscape before Docker existed, and why LXC, cgroups, and namespaces matter more than most people realize