This past year I published my first book. While it was a rewarding experience, there were many challenges and obstacles along the way. But one thing I did in the beginning was figure out tooling so...

I love writing software in Go. It is by far what I’ve been using for the better part of many years now. Most of us developers (Go or otherwise) fall under one of two categories, or somewhere in bet...

I get this question a lot, so I figured it is best to just publish this information for reference. And really for anybody that is interested in the technical details! It is a lot to dive into the w...

One of the common tools that PostgreSQL users end up having to work with is psql. It’s a core client product that ships with postgres and for the most part it gets the job done and done well. In th...

When working with postgreSQL (or any database management system, for that matter) oftentimes you want to see which tables a user has access to, and what they can do with those tables. One of the wa...

In a recent blog post I talked about how OpenTelemetry uses the target allocator to generate Prometheus config to know what targets to scrape. But… what happens when it doesn’t seem to be working? ...

OpenTelemetry has become the gold standard of cloud-native observability. It is the platform that handles the three observability signals: Traces, metrics, and logs. Metrics are an especially inter...

Writing code is difficult. But reviewing code can be a whole other level of challenging. 😱 Reading code that you didn’t write is already tough (e.g. being introduced into a new-to-you codebase tha...

Technical blogging is something I’ve been doing for a long time. This blog, alone, goes back 7 years but I had a few other blogs on different platforms. In this post, I want to highlight a handful ...

I see this question asked all the time: Should I use Helm or Kustomize? There are definitely times when you will just want to use Helm charts. And likewise, there are times when you will want...