The Best Automation Starts With a Boring Checklist
The most useful automation often begins as a document nobody is excited to write.
Read articleHow Candidates Can Set Better Boundaries
A job interview is not a request to make your entire life available for evaluation.
Read articleHow AI Can Help During Incidents
An incident is a bad time to ask an AI system to be the senior engineer.
Read articleWhat Argo CD Teaches You About Desired State
Argo CD is useful because it deploys Kubernetes resources. It is more valuable because it forces teams to think clearly about desired state.
Read articleAI Coding Tools Need Constraints, Not Just Prompts
A detailed prompt can explain what you want. It cannot reliably define everything the AI must not do.
Read articleWhy TDD Matters Even More When Building With AI
AI coding tools make it easy to produce a large amount of plausible code very quickly.
Read articleHow to Decide What to Automate First
The first thing a team should automate is not always the task that takes the most time.
Read articleThe Hidden Cost of Tribal Knowledge
Every engineering team has knowledge that is not written down.
Read articleGitOps: Great Idea, Often Poorly Explained
GitOps is a good idea that is often explained as a collection of tools.
Read articleAI Will Not Fix a Broken Process
AI can make a good process faster. It can also make a bad process fail at a much larger scale.
Read articleAutomation, AI, and the New Level of Hands-Off Work
Automation has always been about removing repetitive work from human hands. That does not mean removing humans from the process. It means giving people better leverage: fewer manual steps, fewer avoidable mistakes, and more time spent on judgment instead of...
Read articleLetter to Recruiters
Dear Recruiters: Do Better Before Reaching OutI value meaningful conversations and respect the time and effort both recruiters and candidates put into exploring opportunities.
Read articleSetting Up Argo CD on a Kubernetes Cluster - A Step-by-Step Guide
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It allows you to define and manage the desired state of your Kubernetes applications and resources. In this post, I’ll walk you through the process of installing Argo CD...
Read articleWhat is the Value of Well Documented Processes?
Documenting information technology processes is a crucial step in information technology management. It provides an important framework for understanding information and systems, preventing process duplication, and making it easier to train new team members. Without documentation of information technology processes,...
Read articleIntro into the world of IT security
If you are looking to protect your business or personal data, there is more than one way to go about it. But most importantly, it depends on what the best solution for your company is. Here we discuss some of...
Read articleFirst day playing with kubernetes
As a starter exercise I did set myself the following goals: Deploy a K8s cluster using kind.
Read articleStarted playing with kubernetes again
As of this year I will start to get more experienced in using kubernetes, to achieve this goal I got a cheap vps.
Read articleWhat did I learn in 2020?
After many months acting as Brent (Yup I mean the Brent from the The Phoenix Project), I finally realized that I need to say no and to step up, not taking anymore projects that I don’t actually enjoy to work...
Read articleTerraform GCP Azure site-to-site VPN
Hey in this blog post I will present the recipe for creating a static route site-to-site vpn between GCP and Azure using Terraform.
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