Platforming The Future

As a seasoned IT 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, 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.

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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I have using LM Studio to run a local genAI instance. Unfortunately, I have been running into a few minor challenges. It...

Platform engineering aims to empower developers by providing them with a self-service infrastructure that abstracts away com...

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Looking for an open-source alternative to Redis? Valkey was forked from Redis to address differences in governance, licen...

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LM Studio is a user-friendly desktop application that allows you to run large language models locally on your device, offeri...

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Running Kubernetes on bare metal or in on-premises environments gives you unparalleled control over system performance—but it...

As you have probably heard, AI is a hot buzzword these days. Everyone is trying to get on the genAI bandwagon, but have you l...

I have been making plans to start another project and wanted to take advantage of feature flags in my releases. Feature flags...

What do 37Signals and Ahrefs have in common? Both companies have recently shifted from public cloud providers to on-pre...

Your organization uses both AWS and GCP and possibly a little Azure, but are you a multicloud or a polycloud consumer?...

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My migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL is complete. I managed to finish staging my data last night, and I had planned on mak...