Your team’s velocity will improve far beyond the time investment — Developers spend most of their time either debugging existing code or writing bugs into new code, except for all the time we spend in meetings talking about code of course. I’m half joking, but there is some truth to this. After 25+ years of writing code professionally, I’ve given up…

I’ve been evaluating django-ninja recently, using it in a personal project to see when it might be appropriate for our clients. The Problem — How to have multiple view files One thing that was not clear was how to break up your API views and sprinkle them around in multiple files. …

I’ve been helping one of our clients with hiring a new devops person. I mentioned to a teammate that one of the candidates taught me something new, which is always a good sign. …

Everyone uses Grafana right? We use it a lot at REVSYS, but wanted to get it set up in my personal Kubernetes cluster. Don’t ask why, it’s silly. Another Grafana tutorial??? There are tons of good tutorials on installing Grafana in your cluster with Helm, but none of them showed how to do…

I run into this situation every couple of years, and I always forget the solution. Even asked around the office and everyone had the same “Oh yeah, I remember doing that once… but now how”. When these situations happen to us, it is often time to write a blog post! …

I’ve recently been on a mission to take my own advice and spend a little bit of time each week optimizing my personal coding setup. Recently I constantly need to got to the root of the current git repository I’m in. It doesn’t sound like a big deal, does it? …

First off, if you use Kubernetes and haven’t used k9s yet, you’re missing out. I consider it the most essential tool after kubectl. It provides a top like interface to a k8s namespace making it easy to inspect, kill, view logs, or exec and get a shell into your containers. …

FrankWiles.com If you’re using Kubernetes you’re probably using Helm. By default Helm installs itself into the kube-system namespace. In our experiences at REVSYS, we find that can get a bit confusing with so many other things in that namespace. …

People have been asking me for a long time to write more on business topics, entrepreneurship, SaaS products, and running a consultancy. …