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What is Crossplane? If you don’t already know, Crossplane is billed as an: Open source, CNCF project built on the foundation of Kubernetes to orchestrate anything. Encapsulate policies, permissions, and other guardrails behind a custom API line to enable your customers to self-service without needing to become an infrastructure expert. Another...

When I started my career as an engineer in the early noughties, I was very keen on developer experience (devex). So when I joined a company whose chosen language was TCL (no, really), I decided to ask the engineering mailing list what IDEs they used. Surely the senior engineers, with all their wisdom and experience, would tell … Continue reading...

This post was originally triggered – and I choose that word carefully – by a recent experience on a cloud cost-optimisation project. These experiences prompted me to consider how things had changed since I started working in software. As part of the project that provoked me, I was researching the topic of cloud cost analysis … Continue reading At...

TL;DR I used private and public LLMs to answer an undergraduate essay question I spent a week working on nearly 30 years ago, in an effort to see how the experience would have changed in that time. There were two rules: The experience turned out to be radically different with AI assistance in some ways, … Continue reading What I Learned Using...

Other Posts Pipes The pipe is the next-most used feature of jq after filters. If you are already familiar with pipes in the shell, it’s a very similar concept. How Important is this Post? Pipes are fundamental to using jq, so this section is essential to understand. We will cover: Setup Create a folder to … Continue reading Learn jq the Hard...