https://deadlysyn.com/blog/ Writing on DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, IaC, Go, Node.js and engineering culture. en-us Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/on-psychological-safety/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/on-psychological-safety/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 culture philosophy It has become common knowledge that psychological safety is key to team performance and essential for mental health. Google’s famous quest for the perfect… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/safely-expose-credentials/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/safely-expose-credentials/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 aws security If you’re juggling STS credentials while wrangling more AWS accounts than you can count, you’ve likely heard of aws-vault. Aside from the convenience… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/aws-sdk-role-assumption/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/aws-sdk-role-assumption/ Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 aws dev go Short and sweet reminder to future self… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/lean-aws-iam/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/lean-aws-iam/ Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 aws go iam oss Part of DevOps culture is avoiding tickets when automation can provide lower-friction alternatives. Similarly, the SRE mindset seeks to eliminate toil. We… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/beware-of-shadows/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/beware-of-shadows/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 dev go philosophy You’re a humble DevOps practitioner. You like Go because it’s beautifully C-like without requiring real smarts most modern DevOps tools are written in it.… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/aws-waf-module/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/aws-waf-module/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 aws iac oss terraform NOTE: This includes AWSManagedRulesKnownBadInputsRuleSet by default, which AWS updated to mitigate the recent Log4j issue (CVE-2021-44228). https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/retriever/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/retriever/ Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 aws dev go oss The AWS SDK is great. Writing boilerplate for simple tasks is… Well, you have better things to do. https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/go-datadog-cli/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/go-datadog-cli/ Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 go o11y oss I found myself wrapping ChatOps around a CI/CD pipeline to manage scheduled downtime in DataDog (avoiding SLO impact for planned work). For astute readers… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/keycloak-iac/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/keycloak-iac/ Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 iac oss terraform Keycloak is a flexible, open source, identify access and management solution (Red Hat SSO being the commercial variant). While there is a growing… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/browser-comparison/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/browser-comparison/ Sun, 01 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 desktop linux perf In a recent quest to mostly automate my typical Arch Linux installation, I wanted to include a useful browser (or two) so decided to benchmark a handful… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/coming-home/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/coming-home/ Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 desktop linux This is going to be a coming home story disguised as yet another review of System76’s Thelio line of desktops. The Internet is full of Thelio reviews… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/terraformer-intro/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/terraformer-intro/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 aws iac oss terraform Terraform has become the lingua franca of DevOps. As Terraform’s popularity grew, the surrounding ecosystem matured to help solve common challenges. Two… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/testing-infrastructure-automation/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/testing-infrastructure-automation/ Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 aws go iac terraform terratest Clone and follow along in the project repository… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/automating-ecs/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/automating-ecs/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 aws iac terraform Clone the project repo to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/ecs-services/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/ecs-services/ Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 aws iac terraform Clone the project repo to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/ecs-task-definitions/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/ecs-task-definitions/ Sat, 04 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 aws containers Clone the project repo to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/lock-down/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/lock-down/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 dev nodejs iam oss The old days of throwing up a CGI app protected by an .htpasswd file are long gone. While you could still do it, more sophisticated apps serving… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/contain-yourself/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/contain-yourself/ Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 aws containers Clone the project repo to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/thinking-inside-the-box/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/thinking-inside-the-box/ Sun, 08 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 aws containers nodejs Clone the project repo to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/aws-dns-and-tls/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/aws-dns-and-tls/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 aws iac terraform Clone the companion project to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/getting-out-more/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/getting-out-more/ Sat, 23 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 aws iac terraform Clone the companion project to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/squashing-bugs/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/squashing-bugs/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 aws iac terraform Clone the companion project to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/terraforming-aws-part-iii/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/terraforming-aws-part-iii/ Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 aws iac terraform Clone the companion project to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/terraforming-aws-part-ii/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/terraforming-aws-part-ii/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 aws iac terraform Clone the companion project to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/terraforming-aws-part-i/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/terraforming-aws-part-i/ Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 aws iac terraform Clone the companion project to follow along… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/observability-in-node-js/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/observability-in-node-js/ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 dev nodejs o11y Observability has always been directly linked to reliability in distributed systems. After all, it’s hard to reason about things you can not see. Thanks… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/making-promises-in-nodejs/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/making-promises-in-nodejs/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 dev nodejs I recently decided to refactor a small platform smoke test framework called Splinter I wrote a while back. Aside from applying lessons learned since… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/node-health-checks/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/node-health-checks/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 dev nodejs Cloud Foundry (CF) has a concept of health checks. These can take a few forms, but the preferred approach is HTTP (vs port- or process-based checks).… https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/simple-things-matter/ https://deadlysyn.com/blog/posts/simple-things-matter/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 dev git Often in life we rush through things we’ve done so many times we feel they are simple. Some times they are simple, but in social contexts it is easy to…