Platforming The Future

As a seasoned technology leader with a passion for technology, I'm excited to share my insights on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies. Join me as I explore the latest developments in platform engineering, cloud computing, devops, agile methodologies, artificial intelligence and more. My blog is a mix of technical and analog life observations. I do not have a regular posting cadence, but I do try to keep this feed fairly current.

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Over the past few weeks, I have been doing quite a bit of maintenance on this site. I noticed that I had several blog posts i...

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LM Studio is an AI tool that is in regular rotation in my personal environments. I like LM Studio because it lets me experi...

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Platform engineering is often described in terms of enabling teams, reducing friction, and accelerating delivery. Behind thos...

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Large language models (LLMs) have made artificial intelligence (AI) widely visible by enabling systems that understand and...

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Whenever I start a building a new app or service, I always plan out the building blocks that I need. Depending on the size an...

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The performance and reliability of a Kafka cluster depend largely on how brokers and partitions are sized and balanced. Bro...

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If you have not seen the news, Terraform CDK (also known as CDKTF) is dead. Hashicorp, an IBM company, sunset and archived...

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In fast-paced environments, the pressure to make the correct decision can slow progress to a halt. Analysis paralysis occurs...

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I have been slowly improving the capabilities for my digital twin. My last major update involved improving email responses....

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Email remains a cornerstone of communication, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of messages is paramount. To combat th...

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I have been working on a few minor updates to the email handling for my digital twin. Rather than bolt additional functionali...

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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Everyone knows this famous phrase. I have recently learned that some Scrum teams are...