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Open up a web browser. Google “What is Platform Engineering?”. You’ll be greeted with a massive amount of links. As you go through each Google result, you’ll notice a trend. It’s all about Developer Experience, customer service for internal engineers, and treating the Platform Engineering environment like a product. A good product encompasses amazing developer […]

When you’re building any type of internal platform for engineers, developers, and anyone else that’s part of your organization who needs it, the possibilities are endless. From deploying platforms on VMs to bare metal to container services like AWS ECS and everything in between. The goal is to ensure that you make engineer’s lives as

Have you ever seen the above meme? Yeah, sure you have. It’s one of the most popular memes when everything is blowing up in an environment, in your head, or around you and you have to pretend it’s all good. That’s “cloud-native” in today’s world. Engineers are confused, there are a lot of tools doing

Serverless was a big implementation for organizations when it came out. The entire goal (depending on who you spoke with) was that it would minimize and/or remove the need for underlying infrastructure. Developers thought they would be able to write code and just run it without having to do any configuration. Unfortunately, that did not

Securing all aspects of Kubernetes is important, yet one of the largest entry points for attackers is Pods that aren’t configured properly. That’s why Kubernetes Pods have so many different options from a security perspective. Whether you’re thinking about policy enforcement, what users are allowed to access Pods, what Service Accounts can run Pods, or

In the world of AI, as it currently exists, engineers hear a lot of the “buzzy/hype” pieces around it. Very rarely are they even hearing the benefits of AI on Kubernetes as it’s primarily conversation about GenAI (which isn’t the only form of AI). Instead, they should be hearing about the benefits from a technical

Much like any other system/platform, Kubernetes has a lot of components to secure. Everything from where it’s running to how it’s running to the containers running inside of it. Without proper security in a Kubernetes environment, there are a lot of holes that potential attackers and bad actors can get through from the infrastructure layer

As I continue down my path in the engineering space, I often ask myself a few questions: What exactly do I do? What value am I bringing to the table? What’s my purpose? These questions are incredibly important to answer not just for myself, but for everyone that’s supporting and following me on my mission.

Throughout my Kubernetes journey, which started in about 2016 (around one year after Kubernetes hit public), I saw the impeccable options that we as engineers have when it comes to an orchestrator. I remember using containers for the first time and thinking “this makes my development so much easier. I just test it locally without

  I’ve been asked quite a few times how I get so much done in such a short amount of time while still producing work that’s 100% top-notch. My secret? It’s not really a secret. I just read a lot! Below is my list of books that everyone should read. 7 Habits Of Highly Effective