The blog post discusses the evolving landscape of cloud computing, highlighting a shift from wholesale cloud migration to a more hybrid approach where businesses retain on-premises workloads unless there is a compelling reason to ...
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The blog post discusses Crossplane, an open-source project built on Kubernetes, which allows for the orchestration of various cloud services through a custom API. It compares Crossplane to other tools like Terraform, Ansible, and ...
The author reflects on their experience of rewriting a 1996 undergraduate history essay using modern AI tools like ChatGPT and Llama2. They compare the research and writing process of the past with the efficiency gained through AI...
The post discusses OSCAL (Open Security Controls Assessment Language), a NIST-maintained standard aimed at automating software compliance management. It explains OSCAL's purpose in creating machine-readable documents for the contr...
The author reflects on their journey as an engineer and their preference for low-tech developer experience (LTD) tools, particularly the command-line interface and text-based tools like vim. They argue that these tools, which alig...
The author reflects on the evolution of the software industry, particularly the shift from generalist developers to specialists in various roles such as data scientists and DevOps engineers. They discuss the challenges of cloud co...
This post introduces a Git repository designed to help users fine-tune a language model for writing emails in their personal style. The author explains the process of creating a model that can generate personalized email drafts wi...
The author announces the writing of a new book titled 'Follow the Money: Understanding the Financial Architecture of Software,' aimed at helping engineers and managers navigate the challenges of implementing technological changes ...
The author announces the writing of a new book titled 'Follow the Money: Understanding the Financial Architecture of Software,' aimed at helping engineers and managers navigate the challenges of implementing technological changes ...
This blog post introduces the jq command, a tool for parsing, querying, and manipulating JSON data. It explains the basic functionality of jq, including how to invoke it and the importance of understanding its input requirements. ...
This post introduces the fundamental concept of filters in jq, a command-line tool for processing JSON data. It explains how to create and use filters to refine JSON streams, focusing on the dot filter for selecting values. The po...
This post is a tutorial on using the jq command-line tool for processing JSON data, specifically focusing on the pipe feature and the .[] filter. It explains how to create and manipulate JSON documents, iterate through arrays and ...
0Exploring OSCAL Using Neo4J
2025-03-15 • automation compliance neo4j
The post explores OSCAL, a standard maintained by NIST, and its use in continuous compliance. It discusses the OSCAL schema, its entities, and the challenges of visualizing OSCAL. The author shares their experience using Neo4J to ...
The text discusses the role of Crossplane in relation to Terraform, explaining the differences and similarities between the two tools. It also delves into the concepts of APIs, cloud services, and control planes, providing detaile...
0In Praise of Low Tech DevEx
2024-07-05 •
The text discusses the author's preference for low-tech developer experience (devex) tools, such as vim, make, and Docker, over GUI-based tools. The author emphasizes the benefits of low-tech devex tools, including portability, sp...
0At 50 Years Old, Is SQL Becoming a Niche Skill?
2024-06-27 •
The author discusses the evolution of SQL as a skill in the software industry, and how it has become a niche skill with the rise of specialists in various IT fields. The post also touches on the historical demand for SQL, the rise...
0OK Cloud, On-Prem is Alright
2024-06-18 •
The author discusses the shift in the cloud industry from a wholesale 'migration to cloud' strategy to a more piecemeal, hybrid approach. The text explores the reasons behind this shift, including migration exhaustion, cost of har...
The author used private and public LLMs to answer an undergraduate essay question they spent a week working on nearly 30 years ago, in an effort to see how the experience would have changed in that time. The experience turned out ...
0Learn jq the Hard Way,Part IV: Pipes
2023-07-13 •
The post is about learning jq the hard way, specifically focusing on pipes. It explains the importance of pipes in using jq, and covers the pipe, the .[] filter, nulls, and array references. It also provides examples and exercises...
0Learn jq the Hard Way,Part III: Filters
2023-06-27 •
This post is part III of the series 'Learn jq the Hard Way'. It introduces the most frequently used feature of jq: the filter. The post covers the most commonly-used filters, selecting values from a stream of JSON, and railroad di...
0Learn jq the Hard Way, Part II: The jq Command
2023-06-27 •
The text is part II of a series of posts about learning jq, a program for parsing, querying, and manipulating JSON. It introduces the jq command, its usage, and flags. The post aims to help readers understand jq and use it confide...
0Learn jq the Hard Way, Part I: JSON
2023-06-27 •
The post is an introductory guide to JSON and its importance in the software landscape. It emphasizes the importance of understanding JSON terminology and its distinctions, and provides examples of JSON objects and arrays. The pos...
The article discusses Amazon Prime Video's move from serverless tools to ECS and EC2, sparking a debate about the death of serverless technologies. The move was from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith applicati...