Cloud-Native
2025-11-10Stop Asking Which Cloud to Learn (Here's How to Decide in 5 Minutes)
“Should I learn AWS or Azure?” I get this question every week. And most people overthink it. Here’s the truth: It doesn’t matter as much as you …
2025-11-03The $200K Skill Everyone Says Is Too Hard (It's Not)
There are two types of engineers: engineers who are learning Kubernetes and those who haven’t read the data. Whenever I post about …
- 2025-08-04
Why Kubernetes Just Became Your Career Insurance
Great news if you know Kubernetes. New research analyzing 903 AI engineer job postings just revealed something huge: Kubernetes is the #1 most …
- 2025-01-28
The Career-Killing Cloud Mistake That’s Costing You Money
Master ONE cloud provider first - here’s why it matters… Three years ago, I made a big mistake when switching from nursing to tech. I tried to …
- 2023-12-30
Discovered a simple CLI to backup and upload Grafana dashboards
This is a super useful tool to list, download and upload Grafana dashboards as json. Currently using this to occasionally take extra-extra backups of …
- 2023-12-27
Video: Viewing Strava Data In Grafana Dashboards
In this video I’ll show you how to view your Strava data in Grafana by doing the following steps: creating an application in Strava installing …
- 2023-12-23
Talk: Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters by Jimmy Bogard
Watched this very insightful talk on microservice architecture. Some things I learned: microservices should be autonomous: they should have minimal …
- 2023-12-12
Ensure Cgroupsv2 compatiblity when containerizing old apps
Are you currently working with containerizing older Java or .NET applications? From Kubernetes 1.29, the default cgroups implementation on Azure Linux …
- 2023-04-27
You Can Abort Operations on AKS Clusters Now
It’s now possible to abort long running operations on AKS clusters. It was released as Generally Available. For example: az aks operation-abort …
- 2023-04-08
Outlining My First Go Project
When learning a programming language it is important to start building things quickly and to begin applying the theory. I have a tendency to dive into …
- 2023-03-28
Kubernetes Resource Management for Pods and Containers - CPU and Memory
Pods have containers, and limits can be set on those containers. Requests used by the kube-scheduler to determine where the Pod will be placed …
- 2023-03-26
The Difference Between DevOps, Cloud and Cloud Native
I found an excellent video by Rob Muhlenstein explaining the differences between Cloud, Cloud Native and DevOps. Here are the notes I wrote. Cloud …
