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Note: The TL;DR of this post is I built a thing with AI, you can check it out here Back in 2012 I joined a growing startup that sold SaaS software to its customers.

Over the last six months, I’ve spent a lot of time in the Tailscale community - helping users debug issues, answering questions about how we sell the product and explaining, repeatedly, how we think about the business behind it.

You can’t escape it.

Every year, I gear up for “conference season,” which includes KubeCon NA (typically held between mid-October and mid-November) and AWS re:Invent, always the week after Thanksgiving in the US.

Do you ever really think about how you get access to your Kubernetes control plane?

Load Balancers are expensive.

Earlier this year, I attended CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent and listened to Adam Jacob’s “What if Infrastructure as Code never existed” keynote.

If you’ve read this blog before, or are unfortunate enough to have an actual personal relationship with me, you’ll know that I have strong opinions and can be, shall we say, passionate about them.

If you’re thinking of migrating to another infrastructure as code tool (and why would you, everything is great in the IaC world now, right?!)

One of my favourite things about AWS is their ability to make the wrong decision easy and the right decision hard.