Damian MyerscoughIstio Traffic Mirroring Between ClustersA few months ago, I was working on improving the reliability of a critical service. One of the biggest concerns for the service was around…Nov 18, 20232Nov 18, 20232
Damian MyerscoughFluxCD — Deploy a Helm Chat from GitI was recently working with FluxCD and needed to deploy a Helm chart from a Git repository without having to set up a Helm repository…Apr 21, 20221Apr 21, 20221
Damian MyerscoughinTowards DevMonitoring Tesla Solar and Powerwall with PrometheusI have recently started looking into monitoring smart devices around my house. One of the devices that I wanted to monitor and produce…Apr 13, 2022Apr 13, 2022
Damian MyerscoughJest — Filenames without test or specI was recently writing some unit tests with the Jest framework for a simple application, I was told not to use the default glob patterns…Mar 7, 2022Mar 7, 2022
Damian MyerscoughTerraform — Safely upgrading RDS instancesI was recently tasked with upgrading the instance types for one of our AWS RDS clusters. We had to perform this upgrade with as minimal…Jul 11, 2021Jul 11, 2021
Damian MyerscoughGCP — Monitoring Quotas with PrometheusA few months ago, my team was setting up monitoring for GCP resource quotas and we wanted to integrate it into our Prometheus monitoring…Jun 1, 2020Jun 1, 2020
Damian MyerscoughGCP — Secure BastionOver the past year, I have been using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) extensively. One of the problems our engineering teams faced was…May 14, 20201May 14, 20201
Damian MyerscoughinThe StartupGit Bisect — Finding breaking commitsI have been working on a new project that involves working on a large mono-repo. When a pull request is made against the repository, a…May 12, 2020May 12, 2020
Damian MyerscoughSpinnaker — My pods shrunkWe have been running Spinnaker in production now for over half a year, and use Spinnaker for all our application and infrastructure…Feb 5, 20201Feb 5, 20201
Damian MyerscoughGKE — Operation TimeoutI was recently involved in a Google Kubernetes Engine migration where engineers were moving workloads from one cluster to another. During…Jan 18, 2020Jan 18, 2020