The other day, I stumbled upon yet another article about imposter syndrome as it relates to programming. It ended up making its way to /r/programmingcirclejerk, where I took the opportunity to make this smarmy comment:

Sometimes, I think I’m really good at X. Other…

Over the last few days, I’ve been working automating my team’s server building process and speeding up launch and provision times. Just when I thought I was nearly done with the process, I ran into a couple of gnarly issues.

What to do when Google fails you

Every once in a while when you go to Google an issue you’re having, you don’t find any good results. After closing the tab, re-opening it, and searching for the same thing 2 or 3 more times before…

Setting up containers, load balancing, and service…

I’ve spent the last couple of days off and on setting up Consul v0.4.1 in a development environment with about ~20 total nodes. Here were some of the things I ran into.

Your cluster could appear to “work” but still be…