When writing unit tests you always want to make sure you’re testing the smallest unit possible. Oftentimes the code that we want to test is reaching out beyond the software itself: The two common o...

Recently I had to do a little troubleshooting and I was able to pinpoint a particular process ID from ps that I was interested in. In particular, I wanted to know which systemd unit was responsible...

There are many sorting algorithms out there that are widely accepted: Insertion sort, quick sort, heap sort, merge sort, bucket sort… and so on and so forth. There are a lot of qualities of each so...

My memory is awful. In all aspects of life. But as a software engineer, I don’t rely on my memory. In fact, it’s the opposite. I rely on my lack of memory. We live in a world where there is too muc...

When working with Go, a very common operation is to add an element (or multiple elements) to a slice with append. But if you don’t know the true nature of append, it could surprise you! Appending ...

When creating Kubernetes resource manifests, one of the first things that we need to specify for the resource is the apiVersion. For many of the common resources, you might be able to “guess” accur...

I manage my own personal Azure subscription where I run workloads all the time. I like to keep a close eye on my consumption ($$$) to make sure I’m not overspending, and to see where the money is g...

When dealing with software that you run in Kubernetes, it is a common requirement to have your applications running on certain types of underlying infrastructure (virtual machines). Perhaps your so...

I live in the terminal, and I will do everything I can to avoid the GUI and my computer mouse. This applies to everything, including my interactions with Azure. For the msot part, the Azure CLI is...

Logging is one of the most important aspects of working with production software. The complexity of Kubernetes doesn’t make that an easier task. There are really great open source cloud-agnostic s...