A hands-on guide to Ansible I have encountered a lot of organizations still managing host by host. Making engineers connecting to each of them run a ton of commands, copy some files over, attempt to make an application work, modify some more files again, rinse and repeat until the application…

Using Traefik for routing containers running in Nomad, while using Consul for service discovery and TLS certificates for security — It may be arguable that microservices architecture is the best thing since the invention of the remote control. Well, maybe not quite… but microservices have provided various solutions such as improved scalability, better fault isolation, separation of duties, programming language neutrality, security, and more.

How to Instrument Golang code with OpenTelemetry — Instrument once, integrate a thousand times Ugh, annoying… and counter-productive Have you spent weeks getting a library or module working, and someone out of the blue wants to use a different one? A library that does the same thing but is different. Ugh, annoying…and counter-productive. We’ve got better things to do with our time and energy. In the past, Observability…