PinnedSteven AldingerinTeamSnap EngineeringVertex AI and BigQuery for Natural Language Exploration of GCP Billing DataThis article is your guide to unleashing Google’s new Gemini Pro model on your Google Cloud billing data that has been exported to BigQuery.Jan 24Jan 24
PinnedSteven AldingerinTeamSnap EngineeringLoad Testing a Service with ~20,000 Requests per Second with Locust, Helm, and KustomizeAt TeamSnap, it’s important to us to be sure our services can handle all of our users’ traffic reliably. We can do that in a stress-free…Aug 5, 2022Aug 5, 2022
Steven AldingerinTeamSnap EngineeringProperly Running Kubernetes Jobs with Sidecars in 2024 (K8s 1.28+)Kubernetes introduces native sidecars in v1.28+ which can greatly simplify your Job and CronJobs configurations.Mar 14Mar 14
Steven AldingerinTeamSnap EngineeringAccessing AWS Resources from Google Kubernetes EngineCombine AWS Open ID Connect federation with Google workload identity federation to access AWS resources securely from GKE.Feb 151Feb 151
Steven AldingerinTeamSnap EngineeringPractical Applications of Generative AIIf you want to jump straight into code, check out stevenaldinger/generative-ai on GitHub for a small but practical collection of…Dec 20, 2023Dec 20, 2023
Steven AldingerinimUp.ioBuilding for Reliability at imUp.ioimUp.io is a small startup, and it’s important to balance cost and development speed with reliable architecture and design decisions.Dec 12, 2022Dec 12, 2022
Steven AldingerinTeamSnap EngineeringProperly Running Kubernetes Jobs with Sidecars2024 update: If you’re running Kubernetes v1.28+, there’s Kubernetes-native sidecar support to leverage that makes this much easier. Check…Nov 5, 2022Nov 5, 2022
Steven AldingerinimUp.ioIncreasing Reliability and Cost Savings with Preemptible Kubernetes Nodes and ChaosWhen you first shift from running apps on mutable VM’s to trying to orchestrate immutable infrastructure with Kubernetes, just getting the…May 30, 2022May 30, 2022
Steven AldingerinTeamSnap EngineeringStreamlining Terraform at TeamSnapWe’ve been using Terraform at TeamSnap for over 4 years now and have regularly tried to improve our processes to remove the pain points of…Apr 19, 2022Apr 19, 2022