Google Foobar Challenge

A few weeks ago I was googling random things (more specifically how to rename a remote branch as my naming had impacted a colleagues’ local environment), when I got a pop-up.

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Useful kubectl commands

Sometimes I find myself going through old messages, command line history or slack search to find that one random command for debugging or fixing something. This is the very random collection of commands like that, as well as some that I just think are neat and should be better known.

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Trying out Scroll

After running this blog with Jekyll and github-pages for over two years, I ran into Scroll and fell in love with the newspaper-y style and minimalist setup, so I wanted to try it out.

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Tracing with Jaeger on EKS with Istio

Understanding and debugging microservices communication can be a challenge in itself. Luckily there are a bunch of tools to make it easier. In addition to the observability you get from running visualization tooling like Kiali with your service mesh, tracing provides valuable information for troubleshooting. That’s where Jaeger comes in.

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