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Our thoughts, opinions, and insights into technology and leadership. We blog about scalability, devops, and organizational issues.

Tyler Treat
Managing Partner at Real Kinetic. Interested in distributed systems, messaging infrastructure, and resilience engineering.
Latest Posts

Controller-Driven Infrastructure as Code
Harnessing the Kubernetes Resource Model for modern infrastructure management

Stop Treating YAML Like a String
A new approach to Kubernetes configuration management
Secure Your CI/CD: GitHub Actions Workflows with OIDC for AWS and GCP
OpenID Connect (OIDC) has become the gold standard for securing system-to-system interactions in modern cloud workflows. In this post, I’ll…
Reverse ETL for Granular Billing Data with BigQuery and Dataflow
Reporting on Cloud Spend with GCP

Platform Engineering as a Service
Like most industry jargon, “DevOps” means a lot of things to a lot of different people. While many folks view it as specific to certain…

Deployment-Driven Development
Shifting Left with Platform Engineering

Automating Infrastructure as Code with Vertex AI
This post was co-authored by https://medium.com/@tyler_treat
Implementing Event-Driven Data Architectures in Konfig
Welcome, data engineers, backend developers, and cloud technologists! As the title says, we’re diving into the world of event-driven…

What I’ve learned from code reviews: I need a little help from my friends
Having someone else check your work is more than a useful habit. It is an essential practice for anything important.
The Tale of Two Teams: Requirements-Driven vs. Resume-Driven Development
Over the years, I’ve observed a recurring pattern in how different organizations approach modernizing their data systems. While I’m…
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