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Populating and keeping up-to-date a CMDB using fluentbit, go, and graphs

Let’s say you run a service. Let’s call it My Service. You probably have a pretty good idea of what your immediate dependencies are — the…

22 min readMar 24, 2023

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Populating and keeping up-to-date a CMDB using fluentbit, go, and graphs

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The Authoritative Washington Wizards Off-season Training Program

Let’s start off with what is likely to be the single biggest generator of controversy in this entire article: the spelling of “off-season.”…

9 min readFeb 22, 2022

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Coltrane and Kadane — How We Can Apply Lessons from Legends to Improve our Coding Craft

John Coltrane was and remains a jazz legend. Widely considered the greatest tenor saxophonist ever, he left behind a broad and diverse set…

17 min readJan 19, 2022

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Coltrane and Kadane — How We Can Apply Lessons from Legends to Improve our Coding Craft

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So you’re starting a new development team…

You are sitting there at your desk, happily coding away. Your manager pings you, maybe in Slack or some other messaging tool, and asks to…

14 min readNov 21, 2021

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So you’re starting a new development team…

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Some patterns for HTTP and Unit Testing in Go

Everyone writes tests

15 min readOct 19, 2021

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Some patterns for HTTP and Unit Testing in Go

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Minimally Privileged Containers in OpenShift — An Example using a Logging Agent

A colleague and I recently had the task of running a log collection agent on OpenShift clusters, and a key requirement was to run the…

13 min readSep 28, 2021

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Minimally Privileged Containers in OpenShift — An Example using a Logging Agent

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IT and Business Continuity: Some Takeaways from the Colonial Pipeline Fiasco

By now we should all be familiar with the general outline — DarkSide, a black hat hacking group based somewhere in Eastern Europe…

11 min readMay 14, 2021

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IT and Business Continuity: Some Takeaways from the Colonial Pipeline Fiasco

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Working with kubernetes configmaps, part 2: Watchers

Learn about writing watchers for configmaps (and other types of kubernetes resources) using client-go to handle changes dynamically

11 min readApr 7, 2021

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Working with kubernetes configmaps, part 2: Watchers

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Working with kubernetes configmaps, part 1: volume mounts

A couple of thoughts.

11 min readFeb 16, 2021

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“En passant” Encryption in Go

Anyone storing critical data has to think about security. While you can rely on infrastructure and middleware to do some of the work (e.g…

4 min readNov 4, 2020

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Sandy Cash

Software engineer, birder, cyclist, language nerd, maybe just a nerd. Never stop learning. A friendly smile costs you nothing.

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