Point of Pride Engineering Practice Over time, I’ve become a huge fan of what I’ve come to call Point of Pride Engineering Practice. Unlike a lot of what we like to talk about in the technology community, this practice isn’t about efficiency or even writing better software. Instead, it’s about our attitude as individual contributors toward the software we ship to our customers. I’d argue this attitude should apply to software we wrote and software we’ve inherited. Point of Pride Engineering is concerned with owning the ongoing quality and delivery of our software. Posted by Matt Farmer on November 27, 2020 · 3 mins read
On DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Part 3: Simplified Helm Tooling Deploying packages with Helm can require a lot of ceremony on the command line. It’s not senseless ceremony: there are use cases where the flexibility of Helm is helpful. Yet, if you’re anything like me, you want as little typing as possible when you’re ready to throw a thing at Kubernetes. This post is about some simple tooling I created to achieve that. Posted by Matt Farmer on April 13, 2019 · 5 mins read
On DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Part 2: Core Services After you’ve got your initial Kubernetes cluster up and running the next step is to decide what core cluster services you want to install. I’ll walk through what I’ve deployed in my DigitalOcean cluster. This post is Part 2 of my experience running a personal Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean’s managed Kubernetes platform. If you missed part 1, you can find it here. Posted by Matt Farmer on February 14, 2019 · 10 mins read
On DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Part 1 Until recently I was running my blog on Linode using Docker Swarm. This week I migrated over to Kubernetes on DigitalOcean. Posted by Matt Farmer on February 01, 2019 · 5 mins read
Tried to Switch to Fastmail I made the attempt this weekend to switch to FastMail from Google for my custom domain. It lasted less than an hour. Here’s why. Posted by Matt Farmer on May 06, 2018 · 3 mins read