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I Contributed to the AzureRM Terraform Provider Instead of Waiting for Someone Else To

When a missing Node.js version in the AzureRM provider blocked us at work, I decided to fix it myself. Here's how I went from Terraform user to open source contributor.

4/11/2026
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I Finally Subscribed to Claude, And It Immediately Made Me Build a GTA Clone in Go

After months of using Gemini AI Pro and ChatGPT Plus, I kept hearing one thing: Claude is the best for code. So I subscribed. Two corrections later, I had a top-down GTA remake running in Go.

4/11/2026
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Pair Prompting: How AI Changed the Way I Mentor and Collaborate

I've been pair programming for years. Then I realized I'm not really coding anymore. I'm prompting. Here's the moment it clicked and what it means for how we work together.

3/28/2026
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From 'Is This Cheating?' to Building AI Agents: How AI Transformed My SRE Career

When ChatGPT dropped, I fell in love with it but felt like I was cheating. Now I'm building agents that automate entire workflows. Here's how fast things changed.

3/23/2026
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Using AI to Get Healthier: An SRE's Approach to Personal Reliability

I spend my days building resilient systems for apps serving millions of users. I decided it was time to apply that same intentional thinking to my own health, with the help of Google Gemini.

3/23/2026
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How I Passed the AZ-104 Exam: A Practical Study Guide

My journey to passing the Azure Administrator certification, including the resources I used, study strategies that worked, and lessons learned from the exam experience.

11/24/2025
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Recognizing Layoff Warning Signs: What I Saw and How I Responded

The subtle and not-so-subtle signals that my previous company was heading toward repeated layoffs, how I read the signs, and the steps I took to protect my career.

4/26/2025
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My Mac Dev Setup: Ghostty, Homebrew, and Windsurf

A concise overview of the tools I rely on daily on my MacBook Pro: Ghostty for the terminal, Homebrew for package management, and Windsurf as my editor.

3/4/2025
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My Experience Learning Go (Golang)

A reflection on learning Go as someone with a Java background and how the language's simplicity and power made it an enjoyable experience.

3/1/2025
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How to Learn Terraform (From Real Experience)

A personal and practical guide on how to start learning Terraform effectively without breaking the bank.

2/17/2025
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When to Create Terraform Modules

A practical take on when Terraform modules make sense and when they just add unnecessary complexity.

1/10/2025
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Building SRE-Grade Observability: Deploying Grafana and Prometheus on AKS

Deploy a production-ready monitoring stack on AKS with SRE best practices for observability, alerting, and reliability measurement.

12/28/2024
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SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets: The Foundation of SRE

A practical guide to implementing Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives, and Error Budgets that actually drive business value and engineering decisions.

12/17/2024
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Mastering Incident Response: From Chaos to Confidence

Hard-won lessons on building effective incident response processes, sustainable on-call practices, and turning every outage into an opportunity for improvement.

12/16/2024
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Azure App Service Through an SRE Lens: Reliability Made Simple

How Azure App Service enables SRE best practices with built-in reliability features, blue-green deployments, and operational simplicity that scales.

12/14/2024
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Hello World - Welcome to My Tech Journey

Welcome to my blog where I'll share thoughts on SRE, DevOps, software development, and whatever else catches my attention.

12/6/2024
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