Building Minimal Docker Containers for Python Applications

Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages

Have you tried using software from way off the beaten path? Maybe you tried to make software for your graphing calculator and realized that you were one of five people to ever try that and there was no documentation. The experience sucks. You may be…

HTTP to HTTPS using Google Cloud Load Balancer

What is Google Cloud Load Balancer?

Scaling DevOps and the Revival of Operations

Operations is going through a renaissance right now. With the move to cloud, the…

GCP and AWS: What’s the Difference?

AWS has long been leading the charge when it comes to public cloud providers. I believe this is…

The Observability Pipeline

The rise of cloud and containers has led to systems that are much more distributed and dynamic in nature. Highly elastic microservice and serverless architectures mean containers spin up on demand and scale to zero when that demand goes away. In this world, servers are very much…

The Future of Ops

This article was originally published on the author’s personal blog bravenewgeek.com.

Why Google App Engine

Google App Engine Standard (GAE) was released in mid 2008. It was a much simpler, much more limited version of the GAE…

More Environments Will Not Make Things Easier

Microservices are hard. They require extreme discipline. They require a lot more…

Multi-Cloud Is a Trap

It comes up in a lot of conversations with clients. We want to be cloud-agnostic. We need to avoid vendor lock-in. We…