Sharing Our Passion for Technology
& Continuous Learning
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The Samaritan Engineers
Over my career as a software engineer, I’ve worked with numerous engineers with varying levels of experience and influence. The ones I looked up to and wanted to follow in their steps were what I like to call the Samaritan Senior Software Engineers, or Samaritans for short, who truly lived... -
Database Migrations at Scale with Fargate and Step Functions
State Machines are an excellent solution to automate the orchestration of large and complicated data migrations. They are relatively easy to setup, deploy and run as this article will demonstrate from a recent data migration project Source Allies worked on. -
A Hands-On Tour of Kubernetes: Part 4 - Deployments and Replication
In this post, we will look at how to manage pod replicas using deployments. We will also look at how deployments and services can be used to expose our pods. Finally, we will deploy a demo application to our cluster and update it with zero downtime. -
A Hands-On Tour of Kubernetes: Part 3 - Communication and Services
In this post, we'll look at how pods communicate with each other and how services can help us tame the ephemeral nature of pod IP addresses. -
A Hands-On Tour of Kubernetes: Part 2 - Namespaces and Labels
Use kubernetes namespaces and labels to map your own organizational structures onto system objects in a loosely coupled fashion -
A Hands-On Tour of Kubernetes: Part 1 - Introduction
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. -
5 Lessons in Product Delivery from Assembling a Murphy Bed
I noticed several similarities between assembling furniture and delivering software. -
Systems engineering using Machine Learning
When you hear about AI/ML your thoughts most likely go to the uses that have been grabbing headlines of late. You may think of writers using ChatGPT to write something (not this article) or asking DALL-E 2 to create an image, or Netflix using ML to determine what movies to suggest to you. -
My Apprentice Experience: Working With Many Teams...
Sharing my experience as a Source Allies apprentice.