Blog Posts
Long-form write-ups on AWS, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code. The kind of post you read once, then come back to with a terminal open.

QuenchWorks: A Zero-CVE, Built-From-Source Replacement for the Bitnami Catalog
- DevOps
- Containers
- 08 Jul 2026
- 17 Mins read
If you run anything on Kubernetes, there's a good chance you were pulling Bitnami images without even thinking about it. bitnami/postgresql, bitnami/redis, bitnami/nginx, the whole Helm charts l

Testing Terraform: Static Analysis, Native Tests, and Terratest
- Infrastructure as Code
- DevOps
- 20 Jul 2026
- 07 Mins read
If you treat infrastructure as code, you have to test it like code. Most of us have lived the alternative. You change one input on a shared module, run a quick plan against staging, and merge. A few h

tRPC: End-to-End Type-Safe APIs in TypeScript Without Codegen
- Web Development
- Backend Engineering
- 20 Jul 2026
- 08 Mins read
The line between the frontend and the backend has always been a place where types go to die. In a normal REST setup you define the shape of a request and a response on the server, then you write those

Dotfiles: A Git-Based Strategy for Configuration Management
Introduction Your dotfiles, those hidden .-prefixed configuration files scattered across your home directory, are the muscle memory of your environment. They hold your shell aliases, your editor

Git SSH Keys for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket on Linux
Introduction By default, Git talks to remotes over HTTPS, so it asks for your username and password on every git pull or git push. SSH fixes that. GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket all let Git aut

Git SSH Keys for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket on Windows
Introduction By default, Git talks to remotes over HTTPS, so it asks for your username and password on every git pull or git push. SSH fixes that. GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket all let Git aut

AI is Not Real: A Software Engineering Perspective
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Engineering
- 28 May 2024
- 14 Mins read
We have all seen the wave of hype around artificial intelligence. It is everywhere, from tech conferences to science fiction scripts. As software engineers, though, we need to look past the marketing

Navigating the Future of Cloud with Multi-Cloud IaC: Pulumi and Crossplane
- Multi Cloud
- Infrastructure as Code
- 28 Feb 2026
- 26 Mins read
Why organizations are going multi-cloud Organizations are really getting into multi-cloud these days. Instead of sticking with just one cloud provider, they're using a mix of platforms like Amazon