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Writing
Terraforming my career: newsletter issues and Medium posts, kept next to the work they describe.
- newsletterFinished Isn't the Same as CurrentNine things an audit found on a site I had called done.read →
- mediumI Built 28 AWS Resources for $22/Month. Here Are the 5 Things That Went Wrong.What building auto-scaling AWS infrastructure in Terraform looks like: 28 resources, five things that went wrong, and about $22 a month.read →
- mediumI Tried to Deploy a Jenkins Server with Terraform. It Took Six Attempts.Provisioning Jenkins on EC2 with Terraform took six attempts. What broke each time (AMI, Java version, wget, GPG key order, nested heredocs, key rotation) and what I changed.read →
- mediumScaling a WordPress Publication with Docker Swarm on AWS: A Step-by-Step Deployment GuideDeploying WordPress on a three-node Docker Swarm on AWS: overlay networks, a persistent MySQL volume and three WordPress replicas.read →
- mediumSelf-Healing Container Infrastructure with Docker Swarm on AWS EC2A three-node Docker Swarm on EC2 running a global service, built for a shipping company whose containers stayed down when they failed.read →
- mediumDockerizing Jenkins: From Setup to Scalable PipelineRunning Jenkins in Docker with persistent volumes, then hardening the container and the Jenkins UI with role-based access and secrets handling.read →
- mediumBuilding a Serverless Text-to-Speech Pipeline with Amazon Polly and GitHub ActionsA GitHub Actions pipeline that turns course text into Amazon Polly audio: pull requests publish a beta file and merges publish production.read →
- mediumThe Kitchen Brigade Meets the Cloud: Why Restaurant Experience Makes Great EngineersRestaurant kitchen work parallels cloud engineering, which makes line-cook skills transferable, not a dead end.read →