Brave New Geek

There are three competing priorities that companies have as it relates to software development: security, maintainability, and velocity. I’ll elaborate on what I mean by each of these in just a...

https://bravenewgeek.com/security-maintainability-velocity-choose-one/

Real Kinetic helps businesses transform how they build and deliver software in the cloud. This encompasses legacy migrations, app modernization, and greenfield development. We work with companies...

https://bravenewgeek.com/introducing-konfig-gitlab-and-google-cloud-preconfigured-for-startups-and-enterprises/

Transitioning from an on-prem environment to a cloud environment involves a lot of major shifts for organizations. One of those shifts is often around how we monitor the overall health of systems...

https://bravenewgeek.com/choosing-good-slis/

I think it’s safe to say Kubernetes has “won” the cloud mindshare game. If you look at the CNCF Cloud Native landscape (and manage to not go cross eyed), it seems like most of the projects ...

https://bravenewgeek.com/cloud-without-kubernetes/

I like to be prepared in meetings. In some ways it’s probably an innate part of my personality, but it also became more important to me as my role has changed throughout my career. In particula...

https://bravenewgeek.com/meeting-notes-lose-value-the-moment-you-finish-writing-them-and-its-time-to-fix-that/

We encounter a lot of organizations talking about or attempting to implement SRE as part of our consulting at Real Kinetic. We’ve even discussed and debated ourselves, ad nauseam, how we can ap...

https://bravenewgeek.com/sre-doesnt-scale/

Real Kinetic often works with companies just beginning their cloud journey. Many come from a conventional on-prem IT organization, which typically looks like separate development and IT operation...

https://bravenewgeek.com/structuring-a-cloud-infrastructure-organization/

I’ve worked as a software engineer, manager, consultant, and business owner. All of these jobs have involved meetings. What those meetings look like has varied greatly. As an engineer, meetings...

https://bravenewgeek.com/we-suck-at-meetings/

Part of what we do at Real Kinetic is give companies confidence to ship software in the cloud. Many of our clients are large organizations that have been around for a long time but who don’t al...

https://bravenewgeek.com/getting-big-wins-with-small-teams-on-tight-deadlines/

AWS Glue is a managed service for building ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) jobs. It’s a useful tool for implementing analytics pipelines in AWS without having to manage server infrastructure. Jobs...

https://bravenewgeek.com/continuous-deployment-for-aws-glue/