Blog Posts

Below please find all my blog posts, newest to oldest.

GKE Compute Cost Comparisons In Small Clusters

GKE Compute Cost Comparisons In Small Clusters

Comparing GKE's Manual pools, Node-AutoProvisioning & Autopilot to see which achieves the lowest cost for the least inconvenience

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Creating an up-to-date Distroless Python Image

Creating an up-to-date Distroless Python Image

How I created a Distroless Container Image for Python, without relying on the out-dated Google version

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Hosting Plausible Analytics on Kubernetes

Hosting Plausible Analytics on Kubernetes

How to run Plausible Analytics - a less angry version of Google Analytics - self-hosted on your own Kubernetes cluster

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Docker Desktop Alternatives for M1 Mac

Docker Desktop Alternatives for M1 Mac

A few options, including my preference, for replacing Docker Desktop on newer M1 Macs running Apple Silicon

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Developer-Friendly Runbooks: A Guide

Developer-Friendly Runbooks: A Guide

A guide to creating an easy-to-use, developer-friendly runbook site to help improve operability

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Some Musings From KubeCon EU 2021 (Virtual Edition)

Some Musings From KubeCon EU 2021 (Virtual Edition)

Thoughts and scribbles after attending a whole bunch of talks at KubeCon EU 2021

I’ve just finished binging on a whole host of talks from KubeCon EU 2021, and thought I’d scribble down some of my immediate thoughts - from the talks I “went” to, as well as more generally about virtual conferencing these days. Which is a bit of a change of pace, let’s be honest.
Tools To Visualise Your Kubernetes Cluster

Tools To Visualise Your Kubernetes Cluster

My experience running a couple of open source tools to help visualise workloads deployed on Kubernetes

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How to connect to Google Kubernetes clusters in parallel

How to connect to Google Kubernetes clusters in parallel

My approach to connecting to multiple clusters across multiple accounts from my terminal

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Things I Have Learnt After A Year As A Lead Engineer

Things I Have Learnt After A Year As A Lead Engineer

Musings about the year just gone and some of the things I'm going to try differently going forwards

It’s probably natural to get a bit contemplative as one year rolls into another. In this post I’m going to spend a little time writing about some of the things I’ve learnt after a year moving into a “Senior Engineer” position, and then onto some of the things I hope to change going forwards, based on what I’ve learnt.
Team Nimbus and the Agents of Chaos

Team Nimbus and the Agents of Chaos

A post about my team’s first venture into running a Chaos Day — a series of chaos experiments against our platform

This blog post is about my team’s first ever Chaos Day - where we ran a series of experiments designed to test how our platform performed when we tried to disrupt it, or the workloads that run on it.