Real Kinetic Blog
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.
Mike Taylor
Developing the discipline of Client Experience Design and working alongside some of the most sought-after creative talent in the technology space.
Latest Posts
It’s Time to Retire Terraform
Terraform exists in many people’s hearts much like a friend or a loved one, or maybe even an enemy. Whether it’s your job to maintain the…
Security, Maintainability, Velocity: Choose One
There are three competing priorities that companies have as it relates to software development: security, maintainability, and velocity…
Introducing Konfig: GitLab and Google Cloud preconfigured for startups and enterprises
Real Kinetic helps businesses transform how they build and deliver software in the cloud. This encompasses legacy migrations, app…
Using Terraform to Build a Shared VPC Network in GCP
I wrote an article a little while back that walked through the process of setting up a Cloud Composer environment in a Shared VPC network.
Testing Lambda and S3 code with VSCode and Jest
I recently had to build a data processing pipeline in AWS. The client I was working with had established a few ground rules: the…
How to Automate Dataflow Flex-Template Deployments with GitLab CI/CD
In my last article, I urged that companies should approach data engineering as they do their software products. In this article I apply…
Choosing Good SLIs
Transitioning from an on-prem environment to a cloud environment involves a lot of major shifts for organizations. One of those shifts is…
Cloud without Kubernetes
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…
Data Engineering: A Software Engineer’s Approach
The tech industry is divided on the role of the data engineer. A quick internet search returns plenty of discussions comparing software…
Setting Up Google Cloud Composer in a Shared VPC Network
Plenty of resources are available for setting up a Cloud Composer environment in a single GCP project. However, there is a lack of unified…
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