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Nice People Who Give Us Money original ↗

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Gambling on Failure original ↗

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Stop Holding Out for a Hero original ↗

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Don't Paint Yourself Into a Corner original ↗

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Most Infrastructure as Code Is Broken — and Reconciliation Is Only Half the Reason original ↗

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Continuous Acceptance Tests original ↗

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'Can' vs 'Does'original ↗

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Control Repositories original ↗

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Trunk-Based Development original ↗

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Web3 Is Just Infrastructure With a Hoodie original ↗

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"Design Me a Highly Resilient Database"original ↗

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Security Is Infrastructure original ↗

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Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Events: What's Actually Different original ↗

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Distributed Tracing: A Practical Guide original ↗

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Prometheus and OpenTelemetry: How They Fit Together original ↗

3 Mar 2026

Puppets and Octopi: Why Top-Down Orchestration Hits a Wall original ↗

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The Best Dog Trainer in the World - Or Why Getting Better Isn't Helping original ↗

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FluxCD vs ArgoCD: Architectural Comparison original ↗

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GitOps original ↗

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GitHub Actions Reference Implementation original ↗

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Shell Functions original ↗

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Engineering Standards original ↗

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Cross-Cloud Kubernetes Clusters with AWS IRSA and Talos Linux original ↗

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FITFO - Figure It The (Fun?) Out original ↗

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Golang Design Tips original ↗

17 Mar 2021

Auto Updating AMI's on a Rolling Window with Terraform original ↗

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The Documentation Problem original ↗

22 Dec 2020

Vault Operator Notes original ↗

21 Oct 2020

Coding Standards (especially in Golang)original ↗

17 Jul 2020

TDD (Test-Driven Development)original ↗

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Managed Secrets original ↗

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Using CircleCI as if it was a Maven Repo original ↗

9 Dec 2017

Dynamic Binary Toolkit: Tools that automatically keep themselves up to date!original ↗

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Access and Identity that Just Works original ↗

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LocalEnv original ↗

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IAM Beyond AWS or Hacking Hacks, and the Hackers who Hack Them original ↗

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