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Don’t just say ‘hello’ to me

I was recently in a 1-1 with my new EM and was asked what annoys me at work. The one thing that immediately popped to mind was: ‘I hate it when someone just messages me “Hello” or “Hi, how are you” when they message me for something on Slack’ It became immediately apparent that, without proper context, this could be taken the wrong way. So I thought I’d explain my thoughts here.

Reducing our NAT Gateway cost with private networking between AWS and GCP

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Kubernetes Networking #3: Ingress

Kubernetes Ingress provide a way to expose HTTP(S) routes into your pods from a centralized controller and load balancer. It means you can define how the network traffic can get to your pod inside a Kubernetes resource and a controller hosted in the cluster takes care of the implementation.

Kubernetes Networking #2: Services

Kubernetes services are an essential resource everyone uses, but what are all the different types and how do they work under the hood?

The case for time-tracking

Time tracking has a bad reputation, it invokes images of managers watching over your shoulder or pay being docked as you punched in minutes before your shift ended. Due to these, and many more, if you suggest to someone to start tracking their time they’re likely to look at you like you’ve gone mad.

Kubernetes Networking #1

Kubernetes networking can be a bit of a rabbit hole to debug and discover what your pods are actually doing. In this post we’ll explore at a high level how a request goes from 1 pod to another and which components control each.

Blog² - Blog about blogs

Here’s a list I (hopefully) update around tech blogs I enjoy

Kubernetes Debugging

This is a workflow to debug common Kubernetes problems when deploying applications.

Shellscript Notes

Useful shellscript snippets

Podcasts reccomendations - 07/2019

These are my currently podcast reccomendations for Q2 2019

Podcast reccomendations - 02/2019

These are my currently podcast reccomendations for Q1 2019

About

Dom Goodwin Backend Engineer @ Monzo Links

Setting up a Hugo Blog

Hugo is a Go based, static site generator. It has some impressive benchmarking figures, a huge catalog of impressive themes and means I don’t have to write HTML.

Podcast reccomendations - 04/2018

These are my currently podcast reccomendations as of April 2018

Books

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Solar

Solar Generation 13 405W panels 5kW inverter Days with 0 data are when the monitoring system was down data =…