Brandon WagnerSoftware Startup vs. Large CompanyThere is an important decision as a software engineer that most engineers grapple with multiple times in their career: Work for a small…Sep 3, 2019Sep 3, 2019
Brandon WagnerBlazing Fast DNS at Home (and Beyond)The Domain Name System (DNS) translates domain names like google.com into IP addresses (like 108.177.122.113) which network devices use to…Jul 1, 2019Jul 1, 2019
Brandon WagnerApplication Architecture via Networking IdeasThe networking world has been doing distributed systems and something that could be construed as “microservices” for a long time now…Dec 16, 2017Dec 16, 2017
Brandon WagnerHashiCorp Tools Are NOT InteroperableHashiCorp has a great suite of tooling around Infrastructure as Code and pipeline helpers (notice I didn’t say “DevOps” tools ;). I’ve been…Sep 8, 2017Sep 8, 2017
Brandon WagnerDynamic DNS with Route53Ever wanted to cheaply setup a dynamic DNS for your house so that you can easily remote in through a VPN or some other means? I had that…Aug 25, 2017Aug 25, 2017
Brandon WagnerA Wrapper for TerraformTerraform is a great tool for orchestrating infrastructure and storing infrastructure-as-code. It’s very similar to AWS’s CloudFormation…Aug 23, 2017Aug 23, 2017
Brandon WagnerContainer Security and PerformanceI had the privilege to attend OSCON 2016 in Austin, Texas, the biggest open source conference of the year. The conference was a 4 day event…Aug 23, 2017Aug 23, 2017
Brandon WagnerDevOps == DeveloperI have been lucky to enter the software engineering world in a time where people are at least aware of the DevOps idea. I’ve also had the…Aug 23, 2017Aug 23, 2017
Brandon WagnerCyber Resilience with ChaosAny team that operates an application at scale strives for resilient and secure systems. Netflix has come up with some really interesting…Mar 27, 2016Mar 27, 2016
Brandon WagnerSecurity-Happy CultureThe pace at which the Internet has grown within the past several decades has been an incredible feat like nothing mankind has ever seen…Mar 27, 2016Mar 27, 2016