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
- leadership
- career
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Essays on autonomous agents, systems architecture, technical leadership, and the work of making software dependable.
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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
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
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
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
CKA: Becoming a Certified Kubernetes Administrator
I passed the CKA exam and here is what it actually takes to master Kubernetes administration
- kubernetes
- career
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
- career
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
- nostalgia
- personal
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
- personal