2023 Year in Review via 2023

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Release: OptOut of data gathering used to AI/ML by AWS

In response to an article published by Corey Quinn coupled with my personal dislike of big-corps using my action to profit I put together a…
Terraform

Do you use Terraform via AWS Service Catalog?

Saw this in my news feed yesterday. Another material impact to the user base due to Hashicorps license change of Terraform. If you use Terraform…
SolarWinds

SolarWinds and CISO get sued for fraud; C-suite finally being held responsible? Maybe, but dont hold your breath.

We all remember the clown show that was the SolarWinds disclosure of concerning the Sunburst comprimise. Now the SEC is sueing both the organization AND…
OpenTofu

OpenTofu first release and Office Hours.

The OpenTofu team has released an alpha release of OpenTofu adn well as published the first Office Hours call. I expect great things form OpenTofu;…
yaml-ar21.png

Another post about YAML

Looks like I am not the only one who finds YAMLs ideocracies painful. More and more I tend to lean on JSON or TOML. Unfortunately,…
OpenTofu

Tofu is the future of Terraform

As the fall out from Hashicorp’s rug-pull of a license change to Terraform continues to unfold the community has done what many of us saw…

Companies need to stop abusing the Open Source Community

Atlassian, Docker, Hashicorp, Mongo, Redis, and the list goes on, all abusing the open source community to gain market share then rug-pulls a license change…

Postgres: The Graph Database You Didn’t Know You Had

by Dylan Paulus SQL engines and RDBMS are a battle tested, tried and true core technology of nearly every application. NoSQL for locally run applications,…
AWS EC2 + S3

Bye bye s3fs-fuse, hello S3 Mountpoint

AWS recently released Mount point for S3 into general availability. The TL;DR is the ability to mount an S3 bucket as a Linux volume. In…