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How I Wrote My First Ignite
I recently made my first venture into public speaking in the tech world at Denver DevOps Days. For some idiotic reason, I decided to do my first talk as an Ignite. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s a 5-minute talk with 20 slides that auto-advance at 15 second intervals. Many of the experienced speakers I have spoken to tell me that this is much harder to do than the traditional 20-30 minute talk.
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Shoving a Monolith Into a Container
Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace containers
Everyone who has been around operations for a while has one of these systems. It was hand-built by someone else many months or years ago, and you’re afraid to touch it. It has been snowflaked so badly that if you run apt-get upgrade, it will probably explode. I had one of these, and it ran our Puppet Master and Foreman instance. Not an insignificant system in our infrastructure. Then one day, it exploded.
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PiDay 2017
Introduction With PiDay coming up, and my company sponsoring projects, a group of people decided to take on an ambitious project. We have several members of our engineering team who love to play chess together. There’s a game going on pretty much every day somewhere on the floor. For PiDay, we wanted to do a project that incorporated everyone’s chess habit, and had some robotics component. Everyone loves robots. With those goals in mind, we set out to build a robotic arm that could play chess.
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Turning the Page
I’ve told myself that I want to start writing about all the exciting stuff that I get to work on. I have been telling myself that for years. I told myself again last week. Every once in a while, I start playing with a blog, and I scratch a few words down. Then nothing happens. So here’s the next attempt. This blog will be full of the awesome stuff that I work on.
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Grassroots Kube
What’s this all about? In the last year, the adoption of containers and Kubernetes has spread rapidly across the company. Docker was seen as a cool new technology for the future. We had one small team using it for a brand new product, but adoption wasn’t happening at all in any other part of the company. A little less than a year ago, an infrastructure team started looking at Kubernetes and fell in love with it.