An SRE that talks a lot about not only tech, but also politics and social issues from a left-wing perspective
Credit goes to https://medium.com/teamsnap-engineering/accessing-aws-resources-from-google-kubernetes-engine-3df21a8ca297 for the initial article that got me in the right direction. My particular use case was to run external-dns in a GKE cluster in order to watch for services that would want to
This talk was given at a panel hosted by Contraband Wagon on Wednesday, April 28th. The event was titled "The Intersections of Race and Tech", and a lot of the discussion was around not only personal experiences around racism in the workplace, but also the structural racism that
I work as a DevOps engineer and have been doing systems engineering/DevOps/Site Reliability engineering work for at least a decade at this point. It's a career that requires a lot of in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of an operating system, big picture reasoning around
This was one of the worst weeks of my life, and I knew (along with many other AAPI people) that this was going to happen. I've had to relive my entire life's worth of racialized trauma in the wake of the tragedy that unfolded in Atlanta,
First, let me preface this by saying that I am seeing this in isolation away from the collection of works that this is a part of ( The Star Spangled Banner ), and that I'm neither a poet nor a trained critic of literature. With that said, I grew up
I'm ecstatic that they've included Filipino-American history in the series. Too often, we're ignored in the greater Asian-American historical record, with one book highlighting this fact in its subtitle (Filipinos: Forgotten Asian Americans.) However, as noted by E. J. R. David in
I'll still talk about tech related topics in this blog, but my main focus will now be commentary around politics and various thoughts around being a person of color in this country. With this new era we are finding ourselves in with COVID-19 looming like a sickle
I have suffered at too many workplaces that have either seemed great on the outset and have shown themselves over time as machines that churn through employees, or have had immediate cultural differences that were unable to be resolved via regular means. There's a number of ways to
I'm going to start consulting on the side for folks. I think I'm at the point in my career where I can help folks out with tech problems from both a high level as well as the nitty gritty details. I've got about ten
This is a blog post that's been a long time in the making. There's a lot here to discuss, and I may not be able to get to everything, but this is a review of Azure that needs to be written, which I hope Microsoft will
I've been a great believer in embracing boring things, things that are completely mundane and unmemorable - the majority of your life will actually be these things, no matter if you're poised for greatness or mediocrity. Today, however, I feel that there's a huge aversion
Hey folks. I've decided to switch over to Ghost for blogging - I ended up neglecting my blog since I didn't really want to use Octopress any longer, especially when it came to maintaining SSH keys on my personal server, cloning repos, making sure my local development