A technical note on setting up and running the OpenClaw AI agent using Docker and Docker Compose on a Mac.
A weekly collection of curated articles on software architecture, development, DevOps, code quality, and tech leadership.
A curated summary of recent technical blog posts from Microsoft, .NET, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Visual Studio, covering updates and new features.
Argues that the future of software engineering lies in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and operational excellence, not just writing code.
A defense of operations (ops) in tech, arguing it's not just toil and criticizing the DevOps movement's failure to connect devs with production.
Introduces a Spring Boot library for automatically generating Istio resources on Kubernetes from Java annotations, simplifying development within the Istio service mesh.
A guide on when and how to build internal tools for development teams, emphasizing practicality over attachment.
A tech professional outlines his 2026 plans, focusing on creating content around Terraform, Kubernetes, WebAssembly, and OpenTelemetry.
A cloud educator's 2025 year-in-review, analyzing revenue trends, content creation efforts, and business strategy for his tech-focused platform.
A weekly roundup of recent updates from Microsoft's tech ecosystem, including .NET, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Visual Studio.
A pragmatic take on Friday and holiday deploy freezes, arguing they are a necessary hack for teams lacking robust observability, not a virtue.
The author argues that 2025 marks AI's transition from experimental tech to mainstream, foundational technology in developer tools, similar to cloud computing's shift in 2010.
A developer returns to blogging, shifting focus from tutorials to sharing personal tech project journeys, including game development and serverless challenges.
A summary of real Terraform ecosystem trends post-IBM acquisition, covering Stacks GA, Terraform Actions, and new search/import features.
Compares Canary and Blue/Green deployment strategies, explaining their complexities, use cases, and when each is optimal for software releases.
Analysis of Cloudflare's repeated outages caused by global configuration changes, highlighting risks and impact on reliability.
Analysis of Cloudflare's repeated outages caused by global configuration changes, highlighting risks and impact on reliability.
Analysis of GitHub Actions' new pricing model, focusing on the platform costs behind self-hosted runners and the CI ecosystem's reaction.
Explores the role of 'toolsmiths' in eliminating fragile, one-off processes through automation and small tools to improve operational efficiency.
A technical guide on using Terraform modules to programmatically generate right-triangle block structures in Minecraft, focusing on vector math and configuration.
