Developer Marketing Engineer. Writing about databases, smart homes, developer tools, and the things I build.
How I migrated 62 Proxmox containers to OpenTofu with a self-hosted MinIO state backend - the audit, the wave migration, the stack, and whether immutable infrastructure is actually worth it.
Lessons from running DevRel in 2026: why data gets you buy-in, why LLMs are a third distribution surface, and what I actually do in the first 90 days.
How I built a GPU-accelerated local voice pipeline for Home Assistant using faster-whisper, Piper TTS, and Ollama - zero cloud required, and the failures that got me here.
How I distribute GPU workloads across two Proxmox nodes using LXC device binding - VRAM strategy, LXC passthrough config, and Tdarr distributed encoding.
I built a few Claude Code skills for myself because I was tired of copy-pasting the same prompts. Then my coworkers started asking questions. Here is what happened when a personal productivity tool became team infrastructure.
Our traffic was declining. Impressions down, clicks down. I'm a Developer Advocate who somehow also owns our web presence - and diagnosing it revealed two completely different problems that needed two different fixes. Real numbers, the weekly audit workflow, and what's actually working in 2026.
AWS IAM Identity Center replaced AWS SSO in 2022. Learn how to set it up, configure permission sets, use the AWS CLI, and audit access with CloudQuery.
CWPP protects cloud workloads at runtime. CNAPP unifies CWPP, CSPM, and CIEM into one platform. Learn when each makes sense and how they compare.
Attack surface management finds exposed cloud assets before attackers do. Learn how ASM differs from CSPM and vulnerability management, with SQL examples.
The policies and controls that keep cloud infrastructure secure, compliant, and cost-efficient. Learn the 6 pillars of cloud governance and how to implement them.
AWS Pinpoint reaches end of support October 2026. Query your Pinpoint usage across all accounts to find what needs migrating before the deadline.
Are you looking to turn your home into a smart home? With the help of Home Assistant, you can easily automate tasks and make your home more efficient.
The *arr ecosystem perfected video automation but music remains stuck with album-centric workflows. Current tools like Lidarr force complete album downloads when users want individual tracks.
Why CloudQuery syncs slow down (especially after a plugin upgrade), how to diagnose expensive tables, and the CLI command that replaces the tables wildcard with an explicit list.
Google API keys safe to embed publicly now authenticate to Gemini. Here's how to audit your GCP projects with CloudQuery to find the exposure.
How my homelab grew from a $200 ThinkServer to a dual R730 server rack with 60+ containers, 10G networking, GPU-accelerated AI, and real power monitoring data from Home Assistant.
A deep dive into implementing MikroTik's proprietary RouterOS binary API protocol in Python - variable-length encoding, sentence-based messaging, and programmatic network infrastructure control. Zero dependencies, 137 lines.
Track the five metric categories that prove cloud operations ROI to leadership. Includes a one-page scorecard template with before-and-after targets.
A week-by-week plan from first inventory sync to automated governance. Three phases, clear milestones, and metrics to prove ROI to leadership.
AI for cloud operations is only as good as the data behind it. Learn what makes a cloud data layer AI-ready and which use cases it enables first.
Map SOC 2 and CIS controls to SQL queries that run daily. Replace quarterly audit scrambles with continuous compliance evidence generation.
Write cloud security checks in SQL instead of proprietary policy languages. See practical queries for public buckets, MFA, encryption, and more.
Deploy-time policy checks miss console changes, configuration drift, and external changes. Continuous governance catches what CI/CD pipelines cannot.
Most governance models fail because they enforce rules about infrastructure they cannot see. The Visibility-First model starts with a queryable foundation.
Engineering toil from fragmented cloud visibility costs $47K-$90K per engineer yearly. Use our calculator to measure the real cost at your organization.
Most teams spend weeks preparing for audits that should take hours. Learn why compliance scrambles persist and how queryable data eliminates them.
Security teams spend more time correlating information than fixing problems. See how a single alert costs 45 minutes of manual investigation.
89% of organizations use multiple clouds but only 8% are cloud-mature. Learn what the Cloud Operations Gap is and why it costs teams hours every week.
Score your cloud operations maturity across six dimensions. Only 8% of orgs qualify as highly cloud-mature - here is where most teams actually fall.
Detect publicly accessible databases across AWS RDS, Azure, and GCP Cloud SQL. Step-by-step CloudQuery Policies tutorial with copy-paste ClickHouse SQL.
AWS Lambda Python 3.9 security patches stopped Dec 15, 2025. Find every affected function across all accounts with SQL queries and upgrade to 3.12 or 3.13.
How I built a self-hosted subtitle generation pipeline using GPU-accelerated Whisper AI on my homelab - with parallel workers, VRAM-aware scheduling, automatic language detection, and a multi-layer hallucination filter. A practical faster-whisper guide for video libraries at scale.
How I built an interactive art installation and collaborative drawing app where multiple users draw on a shared digital canvas that displays their creations live on a physical RGB LED grid, using MongoDB Realm for real-time sync.
Steampipe queries cloud APIs live from the terminal. CloudQuery syncs cloud configuration into a persistent inventory. Here is when to use each.
One year into DORA enforcement, 46% of institutions still struggle with asset registers. Learn what worked, common pitfalls, and how to prepare for stricter 2026 enforcement.
Detect CodeBreach vulnerability in your AWS CodeBuild webhook filters. SQL queries to find unanchored ACTOR_ACCOUNT_ID patterns and missing security controls.
AWS and Google Cloud partnered on multicloud networking, provisioning connections in minutes. But network pipes were the easy problem. Unified visibility across different cloud APIs remains unsolved.
Find CODEOWNERS entries for employees who left the company by joining Git file content with your identity provider data. No scripts, just SQL.
Identify code changes made by employees who left your organization. Cross-reference git commit authors against your identity provider to find commits needing review.
Identify repositories without LICENSE files across your organization using SQL. No cloning required, no scripts to maintain - just query your git file data.
Query your Dockerfiles, CODEOWNERS, and package.json files across all repos with SQL. No cloning, no custom scripts - just SQL queries that find EOL images, missing licenses, and outdated dependencies in seconds.
Node 18 reached end-of-life. Find every Dockerfile using Node 18 base images across your organization with a single SQL query - no cloning repos required.
Find every package.json using React across all repositories. Query dependency versions, track upgrades, identify outdated packages - all with SQL.
How Unicorne used CloudQuery to automate AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews and build their FinOps SaaS product Stable - cutting engagement time from 50 to 20 hours.
Node.js 20 on AWS Lambda hits EOL April 30, 2026. Find every affected function across all accounts, fix breaking changes, and upgrade with this step-by-step guide.
Cloud CMDB best practices for multi-account environments - automated discovery, tiered sync strategies, SQL-based querying, and historical data retention for compliance.
I live in the terminal. Like, really live there. As a developer advocate, it’s where I spend most of my time - running commands, testing code, writing docs. Over the past few months, Claude Code...
Agent-based CMDB discovery fails in cloud environments with containers, serverless, and managed services. API-driven discovery costs 90% less and works everywhere.
Traditional CMDBs miss most ephemeral resources because containers live just minutes. Modern cloud CMDBs use tiered sync strategies (15-30 min for critical, hourly for important, daily for baseline). Compare approaches, costs, and learn why ephemeral infrastructure killed traditional discovery.
Traditional CMDBs fail 70-80% (Gartner 2024) due to agent-based architecture and rigid ITIL data models. Cloud CMDBs use API-based discovery and native schemas. Compare architecture, implementation time, and technical approaches for 2026.