Greg Herlein

Admiral Hyman Rickover (1900-1986), the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” was controversial.

I’ve left Twitter.

Hugo broke image rendering.

I get asked a lot by new developers: “how do I find a coding job?”

Cloning from GitHub hanging for no apparent reason?

After 13.5 years I’m no longer using Twitter.

Three months since I posted, so here’s some random thoughts and updates.

What’s old is new again: I’ve joined BrightSign as their Head of Software Engineering!

Imagine my surprise when I could not sudo!

Tl;dr: read the web instead of Linux for Networking Professionals.

Tl;dr: The AWS Cookbook is a must have addition to your reference library.

Speed, cost and quality are considered the vectors that you can control.

I added Clicky web analytics to my blog (running hugo)

Tl/Dr: It’s on the network!

Been awhile, head spinning, took some time to just play.

Prometheus Alert Manager is an “AP” system, in “CAP” terms.

Telephony made a huge leap forward last week.

Back to the future, debian again.

Seems like everyone is clammoring for DevOps folks.

Yet again I am thinking about the overall software development/deployment life cycle, and am back to thinking about CI/CD again.

“Cattle, not Pets!”

I’m continuing to dive deep on modern typescript/node development.

Merry Christmas Eve!

Thirty years ago today I left the US Navy.

A month ago I told you I changed roles at AWS.

I’m revisiting why I don’t like MQTT, and what I am doing about it.

Getting Started with the Beaglebone Black (Again)

The only constant is change!

A bug in VLC?

X11’s xdotool cli is snazzy, and solved an annoying window placement problem.

Once again, I’m the product, being manipulated.

Some Thoughts on MQTT

Where am I?

Playing around with Tasmota - as the sensing core of an IoT-based swimming pool temperature control system.

Progress, but not where I want it to be.

A few quick notes on getting the AWS IoT C SDK running on Linux.

Dipping a toe into the FreeRTOS ESP32 world.

Finally got a few minutes to play withe the ESP32-C3 DevKit that Espressif was kind enough to ship.

Just started playing with Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.

This week I passed the AWS SysOps Administrator (Associate) Exam.

It’s back to the future again.

As 2020 thankfully winds down, I leave Cisco and join AWS.

A quick measure of the costs of running on-premise computers.

Can I replace a local Prometheus with AWS CloudWatch?

You will get the most bang for the buck from cloud by destroying it.

GitHub Actions can be for more than CI/CD.

Back in January of 2018 I blogged on LinkedIn asking the question if golang would enable development of micro-kernels.

What actually is Solution Architecture?

A simple hotkey extension in Chrome that makes my life easier.

Quick reminder: how to increase the copy-paste buffers size in iTerm2.