I still remember the first time I logged into a production server over SSH. I remember telling myself how cautious I needed to be while working on the filesystem. Years later I have learned a lot about managing infrastructure. …

The first step in the journey to moving monolithic apps to Kubernetes — Throughout my career of software engineering one of the most valuable questions I’ve learned to ask a colleague is “What does $something mean to you?”. It forces the other engineer to evaluate their implications of using a certain word. Following up on the first Moving Monolithic Applications to Kubernetes call…

In enterprise software we have many hands at the keyboard over many years, thus it is all too common to find large applications running on mysterious systems. Migrating these applications to a distributed orchestration environment like Kubernetes is challenging, and can be overwhelming for engineers starting on the journey. Traditionally…