DevOps

Google App Engine is a pretty amazing service. You write code, and Google will make sure it runs, and scales well. This service was available way back in 2008, well before everyone was getting excited over lambdas and serverless. In my opinion, AppEngine is one of the most underrated services I’ve seen. It’s …

Are you strapped for time but wanting to learn Ansible? I’ve got your back! I’ve been using Ansible for several years now, and was first introduced to it as a replacement to Puppet. It didn’t take me long to learn, but it what really amazed me what how much more it could do! I’ve used Ansible to generate Cloudformation …

Okay, now that I have your attention let’s talk about Google App Engine for a minute and how you can achieve your DevOps dreams with a fully managed serverless application platform. App Engine history App Engine launched 10 years ago as a tool to run web applications on Google infrastructure. App Engine only supported …

This was an old blog post draft that I planned on cleaning up. In the end I decided to post it as the raw stream of thoughts that it is. Each one of these thoughts could be its own blog post. Things I learnt working for an I.T consultancy, doing the DevOps, building all the platforms, leading teams, and annoying a …