Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Quit Tomorrow - Navigating Struggles in a Tech Career

  23 Nov, 2024

  So you finished that degree, boot camp, or course work and are ready to enter the workforce. It's the day you've dreamed of for years or perhaps just the day you hoped for as you transition roles in y

• Evaluating 2 Popular Service Meshes

  19 Oct, 2024

  The decision to add a Service Mesh to an application comes down to how your application communicates between itself. If for instance your design is heavily asynchronous and relies on events and me

• Datadog RUM Provides Deep Application Insights

  13 Sep, 2024

  Observability is a user experience concern. Let that sync in for a minute. When you reach a certain amount of scale, it's not practical for a developer to take feedback from each and every user and th

• Taking Local K8s for a Spin with Minikube and ArgoCD

  24 Aug, 2024

  In the beginning there were punched cards. And since that beginning, technologists have continued to find better and better ways to deploy code to bring end user value. And as those new techniques hav

• Build the Perfect Compliment to DynamoDB with Typesense

  22 Aug, 2024

  A modern web application can take many shapes and forms from an architecture and design standpoint. With the launch of AWS Lambda in 2014, the cloud vendor thrust the capabilities of Serverless into a

• Powerful Visibility with Rust, Lambda, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry

  1 Aug, 2024

  As much as I love Rust and especially Rust on serverless, it would be hard for me to recommend Rust and Lambda to a company without a plan for Observability. I've written about this topic before and t

• 3 Proven Steps to Becoming a Mentor

  26 Jul, 2024

  I talk to my kids about this all the time. The difference between influence and manipulation that is. It's a subtle distinction but something that makes all the difference when creating content that i

• ServiceConnect with CDK builds Strong Service Affinity

  6 Jul, 2024

  Containers are a fantastic way to package up your application code and its dependencies. I'm on the record as a huge fan and probably write more production code in containers than I do with Lambda Fun