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Scaling Specialized Expertise Modern software engineering is very enabling to an individual engineer, but with that enablement comes…

Introduction: Setting the stage Years ago I explored writing system level tools in Groovy. The idea here was to create OS independent…

Introduction What is functional programming?, you may ask: In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm where…

In this DevOps world deployment diagrams help document not just how a system relates to other components, but how the underlaying…

Note: previously I tried to keep personal stuff off this blog, and have that be on another site. I decided to revisit that decision, and now…

My 2021 Year In Books 2021 saw a lot of reading and thinking and - mostly, except towards the end - not a lot of new tech. However, like…

Some senior+ developer roles have a lot going on. In my work I had many inputs happening concurrently: meetings, Slack messages, email, and…

Intro For a good sized microservice herd it’s important to know how these services relate to each other. How much internal traffic does X…

I made a video about how gtoolkit’s Wardley Map functionality works. Check it out, on Youtube: Link

Intro Ansible is a configuration management, multi-machine task running, DevOps automating declarative devops tool. I’ve used it for things…