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It has been one of those months where you fix something small and discover something big.

It was supposed to be one of those focused days, the kind where you block off a few hours for deep work and knowledge transfer (set your MS Teams status to “Do Not Disturb” and hope for the best).

It has been a productive few months — too productive, if you ask my Git history.

5 Min The Story A completely unfair, deeply biased, and rigorously reasoned critique This post was inspired by Andrew Baker’s essay, “Why Andrew Baker Is the World’s Worst CTO”, which uses self-critique as a lens to expose what real technical leadership a…

Note: I haven’t written a blog post in over a year, so tread carefully!

The Story As a data engineer, one of your task is to ensure that you and everyone in your team is writing efficient and maintainable SQL code.

The Story Due to strict network security policies enforced by tools like ZScaler causing endless installation failures and security warnings for Python dependencies on local development machine (work laptop).

The Story So, I found myself getting frustrated with the time-consuming process of manually updating numerous Jira issues (Death-by-Admin)?

The Story As a data engineer, I find myself entrenched in Amazon Athena from verifying/validating source extracts to daily analysis, the struggle with AWS console is all too familiar.

The Story As a data engineer, the responsibility of ensuring data quality is not just a task - it’s a commitment to the integrity of insights derived from the vast volumes of data we manage.

The Story As a Data Engineer, one of the core responsibilities is to ensure the optimal utilization of resources and minimize costs while performing data related work such as extractions and transfers.

The Story I (well We, @AneleMakhaba and I) needed a way to get a list of all plugins installed on our production Jenkins instance in the format <plugin>: <version>.

The Story Recently, my team found themselves in a situation where they needed to have a staging or development Jenkins environment.

The Story This post continues from How I Setup Jenkins On Docker Container Using Ansible (Part 1) In this post, we will detail how an auto-configured Jenkins environment was built and deployed as a Docker container.

The Story Not sure about you, but the fact that some apps come pre-installed on your Android TV and you cannot remove them is a big deal to me.

The Story This post continues from How I Setup Jenkins On Docker Container Using Ansible (Part 2) In this post, I will try to detail how to we deployed Jenkins environment using Ansible and configure Jenkins Jobs after system initialization.

The Story I needed a way to get a list of all plugins installed on our production Jenkins instance in the format <plugin>: <version>.

The Story This talk is aimed at SysAdmin/DevOps/Devs/SecExperts and/or intermediate Docker users and was motivated by this blog-post: How I Hardened The Security Of My Docker Environment In this video, I am going to be giving you an overview on how to har…

The Story I am sure the first question running through your mind is, why did a Software Engineer decide to sign up for a Udacity’s Digital Marketing Nano Degree.