Over the course of my career, I have (so far) been a desktop repair technician, desktop support technician, system administrator, DevOps engineer (automation engineer if you prefer), and technical manager. As I look back, one of the through lines across all of these roles was my tendency to over-engineer solutions…

Part 4 in an n part series on what I’ve learned using Google’s deployment-manager (GDM) UPDATE 2017.09.01: I received notification last week that the bug mentioned below has been fixed. I have not had the chance to test it yet. UPDATE 2017.04.04: Inability to assign service account permissions to Pub/Sub…

Part 3 in an n part series on what I’ve learned using Google’s deployment-manager (GDM) It’s been a while since my last post, and I could blame it on the holidays or my health or family, but I won’t. The real reason is procrastination. Little did I know when I…

Part 2 in an n part series on what I’ve learned using Google’s deployment-manager In my last post, I introduced Google’s deployment-manager and demonstrated setting up basic pub/sub topics and subscriptions. Now on to something more complex: storage buckets. …

Day 1: Pub/Sub UPDATE 2017.01.12: I figured out Pub/Sub permissions and references. See the ‘Update’ section for more info. For those who haven’t heard, there’s this whole DevOps thing happening in IT these days. Then again, if you got past the title of this post, you probably already know that…

So about two months ago I started running. Again. I have done the same thing off and on for years. I would run or go to the gym for a month or two and then something would come up to derail my efforts. …

I am really fucking annoyed. I have fond memories from my childhood of holidays that fall between Labor Day and Christmas. Remember Halloween? Remember Thanksgiving? I am Sick And Tired of seeing Christmas decorations and sales going up as early as September. I have (not so) quietly complained about this…

NOTE: Republished from April 14, 2014 I have fought for years with email. I know, I know. I’m not the only one. For many years I did a decent job of keeping my Inbox manageable. My goal was to keep the message count in my Inbox to 50 messages or…

Originally posted June 3, 2013 As a hiring manager, there are certain things I look for in a resume. There’s no magical formula or arcane ritual to make it stand out for me. I just want to get a feel for the person applying. …