Dec 19, 2021Golang URL ShortenerMany companies find themselves creating a very large amount of documentation. With all this documentation they find themselves needing to shorten the long links that they’re sending everywhere. …Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Dec 10, 2021How to design a side projectMost folks want to work on a side project, but they don’t know where to start or even how to plan out their side project. …Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
May 10, 2021Application Security — 3 Ways To Protect SecretsEvery development team working on an application will tell you that working with a security team is a hassle, these are also the teams that end up having issues with secrets. …Security4 min readSecurity4 min read
Mar 25, 2021SRE Engagment Playbook — Month 5This is a continuation of my SRE Engagement Series Articles, check out Month 1, Month 2, Month 3 and Month 4. After your first month with the team, you learned how to work with a new system, you understand the bottlenecks and areas of concern from the team. Your second…Site Reliability Engineer11 min readSite Reliability Engineer11 min read
Mar 4, 2021Golang 2 Factor AuthenticationTo create an effective access pattern using 2 Factor Authentication (2FA), you will need to combine two login methods. One of those being basic authentication, and the one we’re going to use for this example One Time Password (OTP). To start we’ll create a very simple API, with a static…Golang2 min readGolang2 min read
Mar 1, 2021Personal Infrastructure — CI/CD ServersBefore anything else, CI/CD is Continuous Integration and Contentious Deployment, meaning a constantly running set of actions that will run and end up deploying our application somewhere. If you ask any engineer who has built a system that is highly complex and included a number of different services all working…Software5 min readSoftware5 min read
Feb 8, 2021SRE Engagment Playbook — Month 4This is a continuation of my SRE Engagement Series Articles, check out Month 1, Month 2 and Month 3 After your first month with the team, you learned how to work with a new system, you understand the bottlenecks and areas of concern from the team. Your second month you…Reliability Engineering8 min readReliability Engineering8 min read
Nov 17, 20203 Things to Improve Software ReliabilityYou’re staring at an email from your boss, it says: Hello engineering team, our customers have seen another outage of the service today. I’ve been informed, if we have another outage our biggest customer will be moving to another service. …Reliability4 min readReliability4 min read
Nov 16, 2020Personal Infrastructure — Source Code ManagementSource Code Management Options After creating your first application, you will want to store this somewhere secure, where in the event you are working with someone else they can review the code and work with it as well. …Docker6 min readDocker6 min read
Oct 23, 2020SRE Engagement Playbook — Month 3This is a continuation of my SRE Engagement Series Articles, check out Month 1 and Month 2 After your first month with the team you learned how to work with a new system, you understand the bottlenecks and areas of concern from the team. You’ve implemented observability tooling and taken…On Call9 min readOn Call9 min read
