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Test-Driven Infrastructure

5 min read

Bring TDD to your infrastructure. Use Terragrunt hooks and shell-native tests to catch failures early, boost confidence, and make every change safer.

infrastructure-as-code
test-driven-development
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Your Continuous Delivery Transformation is Not Complete

3 min read

Only 10% of organizations actually practice continuous delivery well—are you one of them?

continuous-delivery
software-development
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Check your Engine: Work In Progress Limit Matters

9 min read

Being busy is not inherently productive. Why limiting Work In Progress (WIP) is a best-practice for improving a development team’s effectiveness and indicator of process health.

agile
kanban
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My 2025 Developer Tech Stack: Tools for DevOps & Productivity

4 min read

Explore the complete 2025 tech stack I use for DevOps consulting and software development. A deep dive into my favorite tools, from Nix and Kubernetes to Zed and SvelteKit.

development
devops
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Telepresence with Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

7 min read

How to use Telepresence with GKE & NEGs, focusing on health check challenges and providing two methods enabling fast local development & debugging cycles.

google cloud
kubernetes
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Deploy SOPS Secrets with Nix

7 min read

How to manage secrets like private ssh keys or database access in a cloud environment via nix and sops.

nix
sops
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