Every so often, I run into one of those problems that reminds me why I like to keep my systems boring. This week’s adventure? Docker installed via Snap on an Ubuntu host that happened to require a fairly sophisticated ZFS setup and multiple mounts. I should also...
Walk into any modern engineering shop and you’ll hear the cultist chant: “we’re Cloud Native”. The term itself has become a kind of badge—containers, Kubernetes, microservices, serverless. The promise is resilience, agility, and scale without limits. It sounds like salvation from the bad old days of clunky servers and midnight pager duty.
If you're anything like me, you’ve probably faced the classic problem of everything working swimmingly on your test / staging environment, but the end users hitting some weird issue on production. This is often caused by your production data being (obviously) accurate...
There's never been an easier time to get your application up and running on world-class level hosting providers and there a number of great providers available. Today, we're diving into a comparative analysis of three of my preferred hosting solutions: Fly.io, Render,...
In a word - "focus." There are a lot of cool technologies available to developers to today and the truth is that, I've been spending a lot of time chasing a lot of different albeit very interesting technologies and trying to figure out what makes sense for myself and...
Happy 2017! As we put 2016 in the rearview mirror, we’re all taking a look at the outlook for 2017 as I did here but I wanted to take a more personal angle here and explore what I desperately want to see from the tech community. This list is by no means exhaustive and...
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Hi! I’m Mike! I’m a software engineer who codes at The Mad Botter INC. You might know me from Coder Radio or The Mike Dominick Show. Drop me a line if you’re interested in having some custom mobile or web development done.
