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Thoughts on Platform Engineering, SRE, Kubernetes, Go, and Observability—sharing lessons, tools, stories, and anything else I find interesting!

2023

Oct 20 Argo Workflows - Proven Patterns from Production · 15 min

2021

Apr 11 Download a file with PowerShell without specifying its name · 1 min

2020

Oct 19 Creating a VSCode Second Brain · 8 min

Jul 27 Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare · 5 min

2018

Nov 14 Building a Golden Image Pipeline · 6 min

Nov 14 Automating Semantic Versioning for any Project · 7 min

Jul 21 Up your AWS CloudFormation game with Visual Studio Code · 5 min

Jan 28 Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking · 11 min

2017

Aug 4 Splunk Spotlight - Alerts · 9 min

Jul 2 Splunk Spotlight - The Lookup Command · 8 min

Apr 19 Automating Datadog with Terraform · 6 min

2016

Nov 13 Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen · 5 min

Oct 25 Best Practices with Packer and Windows · 9 min

Aug 20 Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide · 7 min

Jun 8 5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5 · 8 min

Mar 29 Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana · 11 min

Jan 25 ChatOps on Windows with Hubot and PowerShell · 14 min

2015

Nov 8 Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development · 6 min

Aug 6 The Ultimate Guide to PowerShell String Formatting · 3 min

May 30 Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2 · 10 min

Mar 3 Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 1 · 7 min

2014

Feb 3 Using PowerShell To Send Metrics To Graphite · 4 min

Jan 6 Replace a Failed Disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces · 4 min

2012

May 30 Fix Timeout Error while mounting a LUN in NetApp SnapDrive · 2 min

Apr 6 How To Run VirtualBox on WHS 2001 - Part 2 · 1 min

Apr 5 How To Run VirtualBox on WHS 2001 - Part 1 · 1 min

2010

Aug 12 Resend Reporting Services Email Subscriptions · 1 min

Mar 3 How To Fix Hyper-V Migration Attempt Failed · 3 min

2009

May 3 Setting the Critical Battery Action to 'Do Nothing' · 1 min