Category: Cloud

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Why Are We Seeing Cloud Migrations in Reverse?

    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…