2018.12.228 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
leadershipcareer
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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
2018.12.037 min read
re:Invent 2018: Lambda Layers, Transit Gateway, and the Services That Matter
A practitioner's take on the AWS re:Invent 2018 announcements that will actually change how we build
cloud
2018.10.297 min read
GitHub Is Now Microsoft's
Microsoft closed its acquisition of GitHub on October 26 and the open source world is processing what this means
personal
2018.09.187 min read
IAM Policies Deep Dive: Least Privilege at Enterprise Scale
Designing IAM policies, SCPs, and permission boundaries that enforce least privilege across hundreds of AWS accounts
cloud
2018.08.308 min read
Lambda, RDS, Oracle on EC2: Hybrid Data Tier Patterns
Designing data tier architectures that bridge serverless Lambda functions with traditional Oracle databases on AWS
cloud
2018.07.127 min read
CKA: Becoming a Certified Kubernetes Administrator
I passed the CKA exam and here is what it actually takes to master Kubernetes administration
kubernetescareer
2018.05.207 min read
Contributing to CNCF: My Kubernetes Open Source Journey
How getting involved with CNCF and the Kubernetes community changed the way I think about infrastructure
kubernetescareer
2018.03.157 min read
I Bought My First Tesla Model 3
Taking delivery of a Tesla Model 3 and experiencing what it means when your car is a software platform
nostalgiapersonal
2018.02.096 min read
SpaceX Falcon Heavy: The Most Inspiring Launch I Have Ever Watched
SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy two days ago and I cannot stop thinking about what it means for engineering
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