systemd is a great, but complex component. One of the things that I love about systemd is that it really empowers and enables the administrator/developer to really understand what is happening. Wh...

A complete binary tree is a really interesting data structure. It is the starting point of a heap sort and in this blog post I want to illustrate what a complete binary tree is and the properties o...

Without a doubt, one of my most-used commands in the terminal is xargs. This utility takes standard input and can dynamically build and execute commands. In this blog post I’ll show common usages o...

The following error message may be thrown when trying to start nginx: nginx: [emerg] SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(“/etc/ssl/private/cert1.key”) failed (SSL: error:0B080074:x509 certificate routi...

Writing code is hard. So is writing documentation. And I am a big fan of creating your own documentation. At this point in my life I’ve been writing documentation for a long time, both in a team a...

Did you know it’s possible to search the Kubernetes API reference docs right from kubectl? I had no clue until recently I learned about this pretty cool (and I think, not-so-well-known) feature. T...

In a recent blog post, I wrote about how to create Azure Key Vault Certificates with Let’s Encrypt as the Issuer CA. This is a great start to utilizing a non-partnered Certificate Authority to issu...

I’m a big fan of “the right tool for the right job”. For some things, the right tool is a shell script. For others, it is Python. But sometimes… it is both. A lot of times I find myself writing a ...

Azure Key Vault is a great product for managing data protection, and one of the main features is the ability to handle TLS/SSL certificates. The way Azure Key Vault works with certificates is that ...

Being able to debug your code is a necessary skill for any programmer. Setting conditional breakpoints allows you to efficiently and effectively inspect your code workflow. Take this simple (but co...