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It’s Time to Retire Terraform
It’s Time to Retire Terraform
Terraform exists in many people’s hearts much like a friend or a loved one, or maybe even an enemy. Whether it’s your job to maintain the…
Eric Larssen
Apr 23
Security, Maintainability, Velocity: Choose One
Security, Maintainability, Velocity: Choose One
There are three competing priorities that companies have as it relates to software development: security, maintainability, and velocity…
Tyler Treat
Apr 17
Introducing Konfig: GitLab and Google Cloud preconfigured for startups and enterprises
Introducing Konfig: GitLab and Google Cloud preconfigured for start...
Real Kinetic helps businesses transform how they build and deliver software in the cloud. This encompasses legacy migrations, app…
Tyler Treat
Apr 4
Using Terraform to Build a Shared VPC Network in GCP
Using Terraform to Build a Shared VPC Network in GCP
I wrote an article a little while back that walked through the process of setting up a Cloud Composer environment in a Shared VPC network.
Matt Perreault
Mar 28
Data Engineering: A Software Engineer’s Approach
Data Engineering: A Software Engineer’s Approach
The tech industry is divided on the role of the data engineer. A quick internet search returns plenty of discussions comparing software…
Matt Perreault
Jan 25
Productize your engineering organization’s internal tools
Productize your engineering organization’s internal tools
Welcome to the (Internal Tools) team
Eric Larssen
Apr 4, 2023
Cloud without Kubernetes
Cloud without Kubernetes
I think it’s safe to say Kubernetes has “won” the cloud mindshare game. If you look at the CNCF Cloud Native landscape (and manage to not…
Tyler Treat
Feb 12
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Testing Lambda and S3 code with VSCode and Jest
Testing Lambda and S3 code with VSCode and Jest
I recently had to build a data processing pipeline in AWS. The client I was working with had established a few ground rules: the…
Matt Perreault
Mar 19
How to Automate Dataflow Flex-Template Deployments with GitLab CI/CD
How to Automate Dataflow Flex-Template Deployments with GitLab CI/CD
In my last article, I urged that companies should approach data engineering as they do their software products. In this article I apply…
Matt Perreault
Feb 23
Choosing Good SLIs
Choosing Good SLIs
Transitioning from an on-prem environment to a cloud environment involves a lot of major shifts for organizations. One of those shifts is…
Tyler Treat
Feb 19
Setting Up Google Cloud Composer in a Shared VPC Network
Setting Up Google Cloud Composer in a Shared VPC Network
Plenty of resources are available for setting up a Cloud Composer environment in a single GCP project. However, there is a lack of unified…
Matt Perreault
Jan 15
There’s no such thing as a frenemy. So why do we treat clients this way?
There’s no such thing as a frenemy. So why do we treat clients this way?
Does this feel familiar? You begin a new client engagement, and for a little while, things are great. Everyone is extremely gruntled. But…
Mike Taylor
Jul 25, 2023
What do we mean by ‘High Availability’ in the Cloud?
What do we mean by ‘High Availability’ in the Cloud?
Summary
Robert Kluin
May 25, 2023
Six practices for implementing Kubernetes on GCP
Six practices for implementing Kubernetes on GCP
Our recommendations for implementing and managing Kubernetes on GCP with GKE
Tyler Treat
Feb 27, 2023
Three best practice approaches to authentication
Three best practice approaches to authentication
Summary
Tyler Treat
Dec 13, 2022
SRE Doesn’t Scale
SRE Doesn’t Scale
We encounter a lot of organizations talking about or attempting to implement SRE as part of our consulting at Real Kinetic. We’ve even…
Tyler Treat
Oct 6, 2021
The trickiest Elm bug I’ve ever seen
The trickiest Elm bug I’ve ever seen
A tale of two Models and one stale Msg
Coury Ditch
Feb 15, 2021
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