Ian Miell is a technology writer and consultant covering DevOps, cloud, Linux, automation, and modern infrastructure practices. His blog explores practical engineering techniques alongside thoughtful analysis of IT strategy and developer experience.
8 articles from this blog
Author announces a new O'Reilly book about the financial and organizational barriers to scaling technical change within companies.
Explores using Neo4J to visualize and understand the complex, machine-readable OSCAL standard for security compliance automation.
Explores whether Crossplane, a Kubernetes-based control plane tool, can replace Terraform for infrastructure orchestration, analyzing their roles and differences.
An engineer argues for the value of 'low-tech' developer tools like Vim, emphasizing their portability, speed, and alignment with Unix principles.
A developer reflects on SQL's relevance after a colleague's unfamiliarity with it, questioning if it's becoming a niche skill in modern tech stacks.
A veteran software engineer observes a shift from wholesale cloud migration to a hybrid approach, with companies keeping workloads on-prem unless there's a compelling cloud reason.
A tutorial on using pipes and the .[] filter in jq, a command-line JSON processor, for data iteration and transformation.
Part III of a tutorial series on jq, focusing on core filter concepts for selecting and processing JSON data, including the dot filter and JSON syntax.
