Platforming The Future

As a seasoned technology leader with a passion for technology, I'm excited to share my insights on i...

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

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

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...

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

My Toolbox

I've used a lot of great tools in my career, and this is not an exhaustive list. Unfortunately, I cannot list...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was first enacted, technology companies scrambled to be compliant. The...

Responsible Disclosure Policy

Purpose

This policy sets forth the reporting and disclosure process that I follow when I di...

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

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

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

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

Lately, I have been making some pretty drastic changes to my website. It’s been one of those long-overdue content management...

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?...

In today's cloud-first world, organizations are rapidly adopting cloud technologies to drive innovation and scale their ope...

I saw this challenge the other day on Reddit. Using the GenAI tool of your choice, create an image of a glass of wine that...

I migrated my main personal website from WordPress to Grav over two years ago. I found that I did not need the overhead of W...

I have been diving deep into the world of generative AI and have found it to be a game-changer for my productivity. I am us...

I usually update my resume two or three times a year just so that I can keep it current with my latest role or my new skills....

Many of my LinkedIn contacts, especially those in tech, are anxious about layoffs and our job market. One way to give your...

You may have seen this link before tucked away in the footer of a website that you are visiting. If you are a privacy-conscio...

I just finished up another AWS reInvent conference. This is one of my favorite conferences. For those that have never been to...

I have been spending a fair amount of time recently in the world of distributed SQL so that I am well versed for a future pro...

An SBOM or Software Bill of Materials is a list of the software components used in an application. It includes information su...

HashiCorp has recently announced that they are adopting the Business Source License (aka the BSL or BuSL). HashiCorp pre...

I have worked at two different companies managing a "DevOps team". At each company, a team member came to me and said "We sho...

I have heard the term CDKTF twice in the last two weeks. For those that are not familiar with it, CDKTF is the Cloud Develop...

When memory utilization starts maxing out in Linux systems, performance degrades, and systems become unstable. This is especi...

My development efforts for my digital twin project have always been on and off as my schedule allows. Unfortunately, I have...

ClickHouse is a popular open-source column-oriented database that is known for its speed and scalability. It has gained sign...

Running Kubernetes is practically the norm. Every major cloud provider has built their own branded Kubernetes service. We hav...

Redis and KeyDB are both in-memory data stores that belong to the NoSQL database category and are commonly used for cachin...

I have been hosting my websites with Linode (now part of Akamai), and my hosting has been very stable. I created my first n...

I recently mentioned PgBadger in my PostgreSQL tuning article, and it really deserves a post of its own. Pgbadger is a very...

PgBouncer is a connection pooler for PostgreSQL. It can be used to improve the performance of PostgreSQL by reducing the n...

PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. It is a pow...

Minikube is an open-source tool that enables developers to run a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally on their machines....

Kubernetes noisy neighbors are one or more pods or workloads running on a cluster consume an excessive amount of resources, n...

Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise container platform based on Kubernetes, offering simplified application development, deplo...

The Department of Defense (DoD) has made a number of changes to the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program...

It's a question I have often considered. Even though I do not consider myself to be a developer, I do write a fair amount of...

Kafka is a complex system with many different components (zookeepers, brokers, producers, consumers, etc) that need to be tu...

I hate to say this, but marketing surveys must be the new scam. I have recently started receiving multiple emails from differ...

I involuntarily became a Cisco Umbrella customer recently. I am using customer in the loosest sense of the word since all I...

Platform engineering refers to the practices of designing, building, and maintaining the underlying technology platforms th...

I have connected the majority of the gears for a full end-to-end backend for my digital twin. My twin is now interactive in...

My digital twin project is on the cusp of going interactive. Up until this point, my twin has been reading my email, watchi...

If you have not heard, Ash Furrow delivered some sad news. He is shutting down the popular mastodon.technology site. He h...

I have always felt that my LinkedIn feed could be better. My signal to noise ratio is not very good. My feed is filled with...

You might be wondering what scrum methodology has to do with mustache wax. This article is a takeaway from a conversation tha...

Ask some of your coworkers to estimate the cost of a common item that you can find at the grocery store, and their estimates...

The occupations of my LinkedIn contacts are relatively diverse so I get varied array of content in my feed. Someone made a...

I was performing some maintenance on my personal systems and moving some data around when I ran across my old steganography c...

Everyone knows this famous quote or a variation of it. I have heard it a few times over the last week.

My wife brought me i...

Ever since I took down my WFL page a few weeks ago, I have been missing a personal development project. I have decided to s...

I am retiring my Work From $Location project. This project was my personal journey through automated video capture and object...

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) measures organizational security maturity by evaluating the implementat...

I have been building, growing, and managing DevOps teams for several years now. In the beginning, DevOps teams were typically...

Take our survey and get a $50 gift card! It's a common request that I receive. I get quite a few requests to complete survey...

I've been using WordPress for all of my personal websites for quite a while now. Last year, I started to get the feeling that...

I've added a new feature on the recently renamed Working From section on my blog. We have recently implemented 4 day work...

I have been tinkering with my WFH project for the last few weekends.  For those that are not aware, my WFH project has two ma...

In my role managing a DevOps team, I frequently have the need to interview candidates as our team grows. I prefer a conversat...

It's been quite a while since I've had to wear a tie for work. I haven't worn a tie regularly for work since my days at Vande...

I have rolled back to Google reCaptcha until I have a solid block of time to debug the code.

I recently saw a post on the h...

I just picked up my Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification from scrum.org. It's a fair test. I encountered sev...

LinkedIn has been pushing the skill assessments for quite some time now, and I have been ignoring them until recently. The a...

New Jersey is having difficulty right now processing unemployment claims because the rely on an antiquated COBOL application,...

Yes, it's a clickbait title. Is your auditor stuck in the IT dark ages? They are if they are fixed on antiquated data collec...

One of the challenges that technical people often face is explaining things to nontechnical people. While the concepts of a c...

Everyone loves meetings. No matter how many invites we receive, we accept and do our best to attend. We accept them even if...

You're almost guaranteed to hear someone mutter it under their breath when it's announced that an organization is moving to S...

After a few years as a Linux system administrator with the Vanderbilt University IT department, I was approached by our senio...

A while back I worked at a company that had a very small internet pipe and quite a few people in the office were consuming ba...

What's your favorite Linux distribution? It's a question that comes up pretty frequently from Linux newbies or from hiring m...

Every interview is different. Some are very formal and structured while others are very casual. Sometimes the questions can b...

A bastion host is a publicly accessible computer that has been hardened to protect the running services. A Linux-based bastio...

Telnet is a good tool for testing basic connectivity to a service for such things as verifying firewall rules. It’s especiall...