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Jeff Nickoloff

Jeff Nickoloff

Hiring is not a Soft Skill

… and if you treat it like one you’re going to have a bad time.

May 11, 2020

Hiring is not a Soft Skill

May 11, 2020

Jeff Nickoloff

Write about work, not for work

I hate writing resumes in part for the same reasons I hate self-reviews. It can be really difficult to remember what I’ve done in the past…

Feb 28, 2020

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Feb 28, 2020

Jeff Nickoloff

Dynamic Certificate Management for Cloudflare Origins in Go

Today I integrated my origin border service with the Cloudflare Origin CA API to dynamically provision, rotate, and revoke server…

Mar 16, 2019

Dynamic Certificate Management for Cloudflare Origins in Go

Mar 16, 2019

Jeff Nickoloff

Coffee Shop Life

I work out of coffee shops. There is something wonderful about the simultaneous human proximity and loose coupling with my surroundings…

Jan 24, 2019

Coffee Shop Life

Jan 24, 2019

Jeff Nickoloff

Guided Narrative: The Secret to Working with Obstinate People or Entrenched Players

I’ve heard and put into practice several strategies for “winning arguments” or influencing people over the years. Some of the best advice…

Jan 17, 2019

Guided Narrative: The Secret to Working with Obstinate People or Entrenched Players

Jan 17, 2019

Jeff Nickoloff

Where is this “Orchestration” thing going?

Orchestration is the act of creating and managing the resources, workloads, configuration, and data in an environment or set of…

Dec 13, 2018

Where is this “Orchestration” thing going?

Dec 13, 2018

Jeff Nickoloff

Kubernetes as a Common Ops Data Plane

When you really look at it, it is a database with some reflective API magic and pluggable triggers.

Aug 2, 2018

Kubernetes as a Common Ops Data Plane

Aug 2, 2018

Jeff Nickoloff

Immutable Infrastructure it is NOT

Engineering and language are funny, because naming is hard. I’m going to pick on “Immutable Infrastructure” a bit. There is a huge…

Jul 6, 2018

Jul 6, 2018

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Use Multi-Stage Builds to Inject CA Certs

Docker’s multi-stage builds are a nice-to-have since so many other packaging workflows developed in their absence. But I thought I’d start…

Sep 4, 2017

Sep 4, 2017

Jeff Nickoloff

The Delta Between PoC and Production

I like to start most projects with a proof-of-concept (PoC) sprint. If I’m building a service I prefer to PoC a client first. This helps me…

Jul 6, 2017

Jul 6, 2017

Jeff Nickoloff

Jeff Nickoloff

I'm a cofounder of Topple a technology consulting, training, and mentorship company. I'm also a Docker Captain, and a software engineer. https://gotopple.com

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