Colin Douch

If there’s one thing that has come to define the modern era, it’s AI.

It’s been just over a year since I left my 7 and a bit year stint at Cloudflare, and I’ve had a lot of time to mull over the experience.

A few days ago, I was doing some Typescript work and went to search for a specific NPM package that I needed the docs for.

I’m procrastinating writing my Monitorama talk, so here’s something that I’ve been thinking about for a while: Is there a space for Serverless applications in the Open Source world?

Every now and then on my OS journey I find weird things.

Let’s go on an adventure.

In prepping for the next part of my OS journey (writing an init system!)

Let’s go on an adventure.

Let’s go on an adventure.

We learnt previously that an initramfs in Linux is a “CPIO archive”, so I set out to write something that can read and write them, in order to learn more about the format.

Let’s go on an adventure.

If you’ve used the ELK stack, you’ve probably had the joy of trying to share a Kibana URL with someone.

It seems like every company these days has two things they turn to when first hitting an incident. a) Is there an Alert Reference / Runbook / Whatever (the actual term depends on who you talk to), and b) Is there a dashboard that can tell me exactly what’s

Like many these days, I’ve been having my Twitter feed filled up with endless tweets of “Wordle”.

A while back, I noticed that whenever I typed https:// into the search bar in Firefox on my phone, Google would helpfully try and autocomplete my search with a number of random domains.

I’ve been a heavy user of ElasticSearch for coming up 7 years now.

Logging (i.e. exporting text data from your application) is one of the very first things that any budding programmer learns to do.

Grafana is one of, if not the most common tool for visualization of telemetry data from your applications.

I recently had the experience of trying to orchestrate Prometheus metrics in a Function-As-A-Service (FAAS) application, which turned out to be a bit of a harrowing experience.

In many modern system architectures, there exists some common building blocks between systems.