Category: Cloud
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Mastering Python Networking Review
I came across Mastering Python Networking by Eric Chou about a month ago on Twitter and immediately purchased it. I was excited to see book on programming targeted at people with a networking background as being able to automate becomes critical to scaling networks and reducing toil. To say I’m a fan of this book…
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Practical OpenTelemetry Review
OpenTelemetry is something I’ve been watching for a while now and reviewing Practical OpenTelemetry was the perfect excuse to dive deeper. In my lab I’ve been running a project called SigNoz for which I’m writing up a companion article to this one to show some practical examples. When I first looked into OpenTelemetry about 4…
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The CrUX Of Web Performance
The world of web performance is tougher than most internal applications because you are dealing with third parties that you don’t. The Internet, browsers (with a thousand tabs open), endpoints (with agents running), and poor connectivity in the form of cellular/wireless/consumer grade connections. This means that we need to be able to understand and manage…
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SaaS to on-prem and back again! Interview With a Professional Services Director
Earlier this week I meet with a good friend of mine (who we’ll call Martin) who works as a Director of Professional Services. Martin works at a global enterprise software company. We’d been discussing a recent article I wrote on Cloud Migrations in Reverse and we discussed why he had seen some of his customers…
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Why Are We Seeing Cloud Migrations in Reverse?
I’ve always loved using excess or old computers and network infrastructure to lab things up or run a PoC for an application or service. I still have a Dell R710 and HP ML10v2 I use to run services like Home Assistant and various observability tools for testing. So what does this have to do with…