Someone needed SFTP access to Azure Blob Storage. Simple enough, right? Azure even has native SFTP support built into storage accounts now. Problem solved. Until you look at the price tag. The Azure SFTP Tax Azure’s native SFTP support for Blob …

This is part two of a series for new operations and cloud engineers getting into Kubernetes. In part one we covered how to set default TLS certificates on your ingress controllers. That works, but it means you’re managing certs by hand. …

This is the first post in a series for new operations and cloud engineers getting started with Kubernetes. Whether you’re running K3s on a Raspberry Pi, EKS in AWS, AKS in Azure, or anything in between — the concepts are the same. Let’s …

During my regularly scheduled lurking on Hacker News, I came across Don’t Become an Engineering Manager, making the case that senior engineers should stay IC. The ladder is flattening, Staff pays better, tech is moving too fast to step away. …

Every bug I’ve ever shipped happened because the system did exactly what I told it to, not what I meant. That gap — between what I intended and what I actually built — is where most of the interesting lessons live. Last week, on three separate …