In November of 2025 we were working on goals for the next year and one of them was to move to Kubernetes (k8s). I had not had the opportunity to...

At work developers are not allowed to have access to production databases for reasons. So there would be a problemreported to support and they would reach out to development who...

I was tasked with running a long sql command and then outputting that into a CSV. This went greaton every RDS instance but one, which I could not connect to....

I’ve been using the aws docker container for some time now and recently had the use case where I needed to grepthe output to use in further commands. I ran...

CDKTF and Tokens

Automatic Resume/CV From LaTex TemplateAfter I got my last job I came across a reddit post mentioning https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CVand I decided to try and get it setup. I had it all...

I recently put all the values for services in one giant dictionary and tried to pass it to Lambda as an environment variableand it failed due to a size limitation....

I have found this website by Brendan Gregg that looks to have some really great informationon Linux Performance as well as ebpf: https://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html https://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html

Lately I’ve been doing more python development within cdk and cdktf and errbot, but I’m not a formally trained developer.I’m not sure if this is true or not but for...

I get a new mac for work and its the fancy 64GB memory m1 mac book pro. So I went to install minikube to setupdocker and found the setup won’t...

Git with Personal and Work Repositories

Restoring an RDS in Another Account

Replace Docker Desktop with Minikube: Part 2

Re-post: Goodby Docker Desktop, Hello Minikube

I recently got the latest iPad Pro with the M1 chip and have really enjoyed the screen and using it as a secondmonitor, but I really wanted to be able...

CDK Bootstrap Version 4 and Pipelines

VSCode PyLint Issues

Bash Cache and GNU Sed

One of the nice things about the CDK is that it is just a programming languageunder the covers. This means that you can use any additional packages youwant. We had...

NMap IP Lookup

Python TuplesI made a simple discovery today by accident. I was copying objects from a list to refactormy code and left a dangling comma that was at the end of...

Notee

CI/CD for AWS CDKI’ve written before about the AWS CDK but today I am writing about my experiences creating a CI/CD pipeline for my CDK work.The first thing I came...

Fun with DatadogRecently we started evaluating Datadog as a monitoring tool and a big part of that is the cloudwatch metrics,log aggregation, and tracing capabilities so you can have a...

Amazon CDKI discovered the Amazon CDK recently and am pretty impressed by it. It uses cloudformation under the coversbut gives you the ability to do the deploy in your terminal...

I was tasked at work with setting up Amazon’s MSK and we wanted to setallow.everyone.if.no.acl.found to false and I saw it is part of the defaultcofiguration for MSK. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/msk/latest/developerguide/msk-default-configuration.html

Lately I’ve learned the beauty of lsof. At my company, when oncall, oftenyou get disk space alerts. We’ve taken care of a lot of it with log rotationbut we still...

Discovered this cool tool that generates documentation for terraform modules:https://github.com/segmentio/terraform-docs and you can copy the output intoyour README. Or go a step further and have it auto populated into your...

Added the following PR to the atlantis project –disable-apply-all https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis/pull/626

Reported defect to athens project Dived into problem to get simple steps to reproduce https://github.com/gomods/athens/issues/1219

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