Blog Posts

• Getting started with DevOps

  2015-12-21 14:07:39 +0000

• What does a DevOps engineer do?

  2015-12-30 17:30:18 +0000

• Vertica and puppet

  2015-12-31 17:30:45 +0000

• Cost of Technical Debt

  2016-01-05 16:54:43 +0000

• Heartbeat networks on AWS

  2016-01-15 16:04:02 +0000

• scaling up or scaling out - aws choices

  2016-01-20 20:34:05 +0000

• aws ec2 tools version

  2016-02-11 22:17:24 +0000

• Are lawyers deprecated?

  2016-03-23 08:28:00 +0000

• Gotchas with Bash programming

  2016-03-30 11:09:06 +0000

• How to break into Devops

  2016-05-16 19:05:03 +0000

• What does DevOps or the Ops team do?

  2016-05-28 14:25:27 +0000

• AWS biggest instance

  2016-06-09 11:48:30 +0000

• Happy birthday WWW

  2016-08-09 13:45:58 +0000

• AWS ELB upgrade - Layer 7 Load Balancing

  2016-08-12 13:26:23 +0000

• Autoscaling

  2016-08-21 22:20:48 +0000

• Regular Expressions - RegEx

  2016-08-23 10:26:25 +0000

• Docker cleanup

  2016-08-26 10:45:56 +0000

• Vagrant 1.8.6 ?

  2016-08-31 16:35:51 +0000

• AWS User Group North Sept 2016

  2016-09-09 12:12:57 +0000

• rs_tag for RightScale RL10

  2016-09-24 17:44:12 +0000

• Will automation cost me my job?

  2016-10-04 12:17:14 +0000

• what is cloud computing?

  2016-10-05 18:00:51 +0000

• pets vs cattle

  2016-10-06 19:07:12 +0000

• elastic and scalable

  2016-10-10 19:40:30 +0000

• Automation (Puppet, code and schedules)

  2016-10-11 18:54:26 +0000

• Why you need elastic applications

  2016-10-12 22:35:58 +0000

• Development environments

  2016-10-19 18:23:33 +0000

• tech - AWS, Puppet and Docker

  2016-10-21 18:11:20 +0000

• housekeeping, support and reporting

  2016-11-03 16:58:44 +0000

• Puppet Camp Fall (Autumn) London 2016

  2016-11-09 09:16:45 +0000

• Architects and designers

  2016-11-16 11:53:13 +0000

• puppet types and providers

  2016-11-23 18:12:14 +0000

• AWS advent, day 1

  2016-12-01 17:41:31 +0000

• AWS key announcements

  2016-12-03 23:00:33 +0000

• AWS advent has started! day 4

  2016-12-04 17:38:20 +0000

• Amazon Web Services announce Canada

  2016-12-12 21:44:10 +0000

• AWS announce London region

  2016-12-14 17:12:41 +0000

• Wordpress to jekyll

  2017-01-30 13:00

• The Importance of testing backups

  2017-02-02 13:00

• Getting authenticated with Mongo

  2017-02-11 13:00

• Security Groups

  2017-02-18 13:00

• Do you have Fun at Work?

  2017-02-25 13:00

• Work from home, is it working?

  2017-03-04 13:00

• software design principles according to Neil Millard and John Romero

  2017-03-11 13:00

• persistent data for docker and the cloud

  2017-03-18 13:00

• 6 steps to becoming a cloud expert

  2017-03-25 13:00

• Docker Swarm

  2017-03-31 13:00

• Docker on Nomad

  2017-04-08 13:00

• Software Updates and Technical Debt

  2017-04-22 13:00

• AWS Limits

  2017-04-29 13:00

• Monitoring

  2017-05-07 13:00

• email and alerts

  2017-05-13 13:00

• code quality

  2017-06-04 13:00

• puppet camp london june 2017 Masterless puppet

  2017-06-10 13:00

• Avoid unstable server builds using version control and bundles

  2017-06-17 13:00:00 +0000

• Avoid unexpected big bills from AWS

  2017-06-25 13:00:00 +0000

• Puppet 5

  2017-07-10 13:00:00 +0000

• Automating servers while you sleep

  2017-07-12 13:00:00 +0000

• What is devops?

  2017-08-19 13:00:00 +0000

• You are paying too much for your cloud servers

  2017-09-02 13:00:00 +0000

• What does immutable mean?

  2017-09-16 13:00:00 +0000

• Getting servers to build themselves in AWS

  2018-09-15 13:00:00 +0000

• My Four Steps for a successful cloud deployment - Introduction

  2019-01-11 13:00:00 +0000

• My Four Steps for a successful cloud deployment - Design

  2019-01-18 13:00:00 +0000

• My Four Steps for a successful cloud deployment - Automate

  2019-01-25 13:00:00 +0000

• My Four Steps for a successful cloud deployment - Scale

  2019-02-01 13:00:00 +0000

• My Four Steps for a successful cloud deployment - Data

  2019-02-08 13:00:00 +0000

• What is a digital platform?

  2020-11-09 13:00:00 +0000

• Your stuff will Break!

  2020-12-16 13:00:00 +0000

• Your stuff will Break Part 2!

  2021-03-10 13:00:00 +0000

• What keeps the containers safe?

  2021-03-24 13:00:00 +0000

• git push -u origin <branch>?

  2021-04-06 13:00:00 +0000

• Is 12 factor still relevant?

  2021-04-09 13:00:00 +0000

• What does cloud application architecture look like?

  2021-04-11 13:00:00 +0000

• Platform As A Service?

  2022-04-12 13:00:00 +0000

• What does a DevOps Engineer do?

  2022-06-12 13:00:00 +0000

• I am a squirrel

  2022-06-19 13:00:00 +0000

• My name is

  2022-06-25 13:00:00 +0000

• DevOps and Cloud 2022 InfoQ report

  2022-06-26 13:00:00 +0000

• Freelance, why not?

  2022-07-03 13:00:00 +0000

• Developer Experience

  2022-07-09 13:00:00 +0000

• Multi-cloud is bad

  2022-07-17 13:00:00 +0000

• Thermal events are here

  2022-07-24 13:00:00 +0000

• Workspace, offline and online

  2022-07-31 13:00:00 +0000

• Run your own serverless

  2022-08-07 13:00:00 +0000

• Learning DevOps

  2022-08-21 13:00:00 +0000

• Optimised Technologist delivery?

  2022-08-28 13:00:00 +0000

• Dashboards, Metrics and Logs

  2022-09-04 13:00:00 +0000

• Where to start with cloud security?

  2022-09-11 13:00:00 +0000

• How to deal with Imposter syndrome?

  2022-09-18 13:00:00 +0000

• What is Ansible and how does it work?

  2022-09-25 13:00:00 +0000

• How would you like your container served?

  2022-10-02 13:00:00 +0000

• Google announces closure of Stadia

  2022-10-09 13:00:00 +0000

• What is CloudOps?

  2022-10-16 13:00:00 +0000

• Platform engineering is not DevOps

  2022-10-23 13:00:00 +0000

• Which language for DevOps tasks?

  2022-10-30 13:00:00 +0000

• What does hybrid cloud mean for DevOps?

  2022-11-06 13:00:00 +0000

• Lift and shift to the cloud?

  2022-11-13 13:00:00 +0000

• System Reliability and Canaries

  2022-11-20 13:00:00 +0000

• What is git?

  2022-11-27 13:00:00 +0000

• What fish teach us about asynchronous operations

  2022-12-04 13:00:00 +0000

• What happened at Re:Invent 2022

  2022-12-11 13:00:00 +0000

• New years resolution for a career boost in 2023

  2022-12-18 13:00:00 +0000

• DevOps skills in 2023

  2023-01-15 13:00:00 +0000

• How DevOps can help deploy faster

  2023-01-22 13:00:00 +0000

• Azure Outage

  2023-01-29 13:00:00 +0000

• What is GitOps?

  2023-02-05 13:00:00 +0000

• What is next for DevOps and platform engineering?

  2023-02-12 13:00:00 +0000

• Staying technical?

  2023-02-19 13:00:00 +0000

• Registry update for Kubernetes

  2023-02-26 13:00:00 +0000

• Do not make this mistake when IT contracting

  2023-03-05 13:00:00 +0000

• Leaping into IT contracting

  2023-03-12 13:00:00 +0000

• Running your own business

  2023-03-19 13:00:00 +0000

• Reporting and Compliance

  2023-03-26 13:00:00 +0000

• Budgets and cash-flow

  2023-04-02 13:00:00 +0000

• Contracts and Flexibility

  2023-04-09 13:00:00 +0000

• Confidence and how it affects your business

  2023-04-16 13:00:00 +0000

• Confidence - Get more confident - Know your Sh*t

  2023-04-23 13:00:00 +0000

• Setting up a cloudfront with S3 bucket

  2023-04-30 13:00:00 +0000

• Acheive your goals through coaching

  2023-05-14 13:00:00 +0000

• Award winning DevOps Professional

  2024-03-15 13:00:00 +0000

• Anatomy of a live deployment

  2024-03-23 13:00:00 +0000

• Beginners guide to DevOps and CI/CD

  2024-08-14 13:00:00 +0000

• If AI does the boring work, what is a job for?

  2026-02-22 13:00:00 +0000

• How to stay valuable when AI is in the org chart

  2026-03-01 13:00:00 +0000

• Do You Really Need Kubernetes?

  2026-06-28