2024

• A Product Mindset is a Continual Mindset
• Platform Extension Sites
• Software Product Teams
• Discoverable Organisations
• Visible Decision-making
• Minimalist Software Product Development
• The state of Kubernetes platform version management 2024
• FinOps Engineering Insights
• FinOps — When to have a FinOps Team
• FinOps — Unit Economics
• FinOps Engineering Practises
• FinOps Engineering — Visibility — Trends & Emergencies
• FinOps Engineering — DX
• FinOps Engineering — Defaults
• FinOps Engineering — Elevating Cost as a NFR
• Certifications

2023

• Kubernetes imagePullSecrets Helper Resource Collection
• Kubernetes imagePullSecret Automation Help
• How using multiple k8s imagePullSecrets works
• Screenshot Anti-patterns
• My Medium Blog Daily Readership Stats Pattern
• Error Balance
• K8s PodSecurityContext vs ContainerSecurityContext
• How allowPrivilegeEscalation works in Kubernetes
• Kubernetes Named Lists
• Kubernetes DockerConfigJson Registry Wildcards
• Kubernetes imagePullSecrets Negative Testing
• Kubernetes Gatekeeper imagePullSecrets Mutation

2022

• Kubernetes High Availability Workload Deployment
• Group Technical Lead
• 4 Types of Technology Product Team Management
• Monotonic Counters
• As-Is To-Be
• Links
• Don’t Forget About AWS VPC Endpoint Policies
• Bring me problems not solutions
• People-Centric Software Operations Culture
• Delete Git Branches
• AWS EKS Unconfigurable Admin Settings
• Kubernetes Observability — Monitoring K8s Jobs
• Software Architecture
• Delete Git Tags
• Kubernetes Observability — Watches And APIServer Latency Monitoring
• Please Stop Leaving Parts Of Automation Pipelines Red
• Golang Default GOPROXY Hidden Networking Requirements
• Kubernetes Workload Resources and Metadata for Pods
• Robust Perception — Reliable Insights
• Hashicorp Kubernetes Vault Auth — Claim ISS Is Invalid
• Kubernetes Bound Projected Service Account Token Volumes Might Surprise You
• Kubectl Edit
• Kubectl Install CRD Failed — Annotations Too Long
• Monitor Kubernetes API Server Audit in EKS
• Terraform Logging
• AWS IAM Policy Condition Keys Won’t Always Work!

2021

• Problem Postmortems
• Kubernetes Quality of Service (QoS) Class Vs Priority Class
• A Simple Kubernetes Priority Class Model
• Kubernetes Scaling, Capacity and Resource Planning in Complex Clusters
• Kubernetes Node Overcommitted
• The Mythical DevOps Engineer — Role Confusion in Tech
• File-Dir-Set-Ops — Use Case — Checkov
• File-Dir-Set-Ops — Release v0.1.0
• 5 Cloud Security Fundamentals
• Software Quality — Non-Functional Requirements
• Learn, Do, Teach
• Technical Career Track
• Fully Deleting AWS EKS Clusters
• 18 Areas of Leadership
• AWS EKS Kubernetes Versions Upgrade and Update Management
• A Useful Definition of Leadership
• CIS Benchmark Profile Levels
• Center for Internet Security (CIS)
• 32 Skills for Technical People
• HumanOps
• Standards for Participation — Be Proactive
• Use the full power of assertions for cleaner Testing
• Don’t handle Exceptions when Testing
• Bandit Python assert
• Easily manage Ordered Lists in Markdown
• Get AWS EC2 Instance Metadata Service State
• Draft Pull Requests
• Escape Sequences in Terraform for Literal Special Characters
• Fend Release v1.0.0
• Use Directory Name in Terraform
• Script to force remove Kubernetes Namespace Finalizer

2020

• Don’t duplicate Groups in Identity Systems
• Team Contributors — Because There’s No “I” in Team
• Don’t duplicate identity in Software Systems
• Embed GitHub gists in Medium posts: Step-by-step guide
• Code in Medium Posts
• Network with Localhost in your Docker for Mac Kubernetes Cluster
• Show .git and other default hidden folders and files in VS Code
• Comment toggling in VS Code
• Simplest ZSH Prompt Configs for Git Branch Name
• Amazon EKS Is Eating My IPs!
• Query results where label is not present in Prometheus
• Handling non-alphanumeric fields in AWS CloudWatch Log Insights
• Find the detailed EKS Version
• Helm Show
• Envoy Proxy Percent Type Doc Supplement
• curl -G
• AWS STS PrivateLink Integration Issue with Lambda & Boto3

2019

• Benchmarking the Best Way to Reverse a String in Python
• Containers and Virtual Machines: A Process Perspective
• Containers and Virtual Machines: An Overview
• Why you should blog for a hobby
• Docker Basics & Dockerised RHEL8
• What is DevOps?
• Kubernetes Secrets Absolute Basics
• Python 3.6 Lambda Dev Process
• Yes To Proceed
• AWS API Gateway Responses
• Understanding AWS CloudWatch Log Group Retention Periods
• 410 Gone
• AWS Private API GW & how VPCEs do not extend out of VPC
• Simple Docker Nginx CORS Reverse-Proxy
• Simple Local CORS test tool
• Reuse for better Software delivery
• RHEL 7 on VirtualBox on Mac
• Functional Mutation Testing
• Order Test Execution in JUnit5 Jupiter

2018

• Shell Log Extraction in Bash, Java & SoapUI
• Jenkins Job Locking
• K8s Start Up Race Conditions
• LocalStack for Local AWS Dev
• K8s Java Spring Cross-Environment Microservice Sizing
• K8s Sleep Scheduling
• Alpine Image Shrink Analysis
• Effective Choices & Local Cloud Dev