Working with strong-willed people
I used to be dogmatic. I used to think that there was a “right” way and a “wrong” way of doing things. I also used to think that for the sake of the “truth” I had to shut people down...
The balance between pipeline speed and too much automation
Recently, I have been suffering from incredibly slow pipelines and slow feedback loops. When a change to be deployed to a test environment, it would have to be approved from a pull request, then pass a validation build, merged to...
Is Terraform faster than ARM templates?
Based on feeling and experiencing the differences of heavy usage with Terraform and ARM, it feels that Terraform is much faster than ARM templates. So I decided to create a simple test.
Thinking about Infrastructure as Code
I’m not a town planner. I did go through a phase of being pretty addicted to a game called City Skylines. In this post, I’ll draw some connections in my “pretend town planner experience” with building complex multi-application infrastructures using...
My work from home set-up
Given the corona virus craze, a lot more people are considering working from home. I wanted to share my set-up since I spent considerable time designing my home office. I believe in spending good money in some key areas. A...