Thoughts on cloud architecture, platform engineering, DevOps practices, and the leadership moves that keep teams shipping.
Browse all postsA local infrastructure break in the Lake Orion and Orion Township area is a useful reminder for cloud builders: the real question is not whether something can fail, but what happens next.
I was recently promoted from Senior 1 to Senior 2 at OneStream. The job itself hasn't changed much, but how I do it keeps changing, and that shows up in everything I'm building outside work: a better 3D model of my home, agent workflows for Duff Cloud Services, and a tablet game for my daughter.
On my pipelines the end-to-end suite eats most of the clock, and a full run isn't always what a change needs. An AI step reads the diff and runs only the tests that change touches. Here's the selector script that does it, guardrails and all.
A local language model decides whether my lawn needs water. On paper. Every call it makes goes into a journal I review before it ever touches a valve, because trust in an automated decision-maker is earned the same way it is with a new engineer.
Microsoft shipped Go support for Azure Functions at Build. The headline is the language. The part that got me is what's underneath it. Durable Task in Go, and what it could do for the async work I've been hand-rolling in containers.
I've authored infrastructure as code in both and run both in production. Here's the honest version of when I reach for each. And why, if your world is Azure, the state file is the whole conversation.
A practical way to choose your next project: build for where you are, where you want to go, and the problems you can actually solve. Don't outsource your fundamentals to AI.
A heartfelt tribute to the open source creators, language designers, mentors, and technology pioneers who made my career possible. Evan You's Vue ecosystem, Rob Pike's Go, and everyone who helped shape a lacrosse-stringing kid into a platform engineer.
An introduction to my decade-long software development journey, from Microsoft-focused enterprise development to modern web technologies.
Build a production-grade CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, Docker, and Azure Container Registry with infrastructure as code using Bicep.
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