Reproducibility in Practice
What does reproducibility mean in software engineering? Some practical ways to apply it to reduce bugs and increase velocity.…
Building tools and solving interesting problems in cloud computing. MBA @ Stanford, ex-Google Software Engineer (Kubernetes)
Bizarre Open Source Licenses
A collection of interesting and unique open source licenses I've come across.…
A Novel docker-native Alternative to the Dockerfile
In this blog post, I'll show you how to write your own Dockerfile syntax that works out of the box with any existing Docker installation.…
Heptagon of Configuration
The Heptagon of Configuration is a pattern observed in software configuration, where configuration evolves through specific, increasing levels of flexibility and complexity, before returning the restrictive and simple implementation.…
Production-Grade Kubernetes Development
The more your development environment looks like what you're ultimately deploying, the fewer headaches your team is going to have. When using Kubernetes, you have a few different options of how you could have your developers work. I've built developer tools across the whole spectrum and here are some benefits…
Fast Kubernetes Development with File Sync and Smart Rebuilds
What if I told you that you didn't have to rebuild your docker images every time you made a change? I'm happy to share with you a feature I added in the last release of skaffold that instantly syncs files to your running containers without any changes to your deployments…
Offline is a Feature, Not a Product
Offline is a Feature, Not a Product "Why would I ever use X?" "Well, you can do development on an airplane." This argument misses the fundamental point of offline. Offline is a feature for development tools, added in pursuit of the real prize: faster development cycles. Everything else is a…
Unit Testing with the Kubernetes Client Library
How do you unit test code that makes Kubernetes API calls? Using the Kubernetes client library can help you mock out a cluster to test your code against. As one of the first consumers of the kubernetes/client-go library when building kubernetes/minikube, I built elaborate mocks for services, pods,…