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Scaling services with Karpenter, HPAs and Kubernetes Requests (Even through Hurricane Melissa)

November 23rd, 2025 — That title is just Cloud word salad man.. The set up is worth it, bear with me Ok, I know what you're probably thinking, "Jordan, look at that...

How To Solve kube-prometheus-stack annotations bug with ArgoCD

May 25th, 2025 — Background A couple of weeks ago, I was tasked with deploying a large scale legacy system, some of the existing constraints were that we needed...

Docker Networks and Nginx Reverse Proxy Pitfalls

March 30th, 2025 — Preamble A couple of weeks ago, I colleague of mine called me up to assist with a reverse proxy setup he was working on with nginx and docker...

The Hidden (Obvious) Cost of Not Testing

October 30th, 2024 — "First of all, Are you serious?" Deadly serious, I'm afraid. Unit, Mocking, Stubs, Load Testing, Integration, if any of these mean...

Rolling your own Laravel Sail

May 9th, 2023 — Laravel Sail is an amazing tool that simplifies Laravel development by providing a lightweight Docker environment out of the box, which can save us...