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Automation Intermediate

Terraform Module Design That Scales

Terraform makes it easy to create infrastructure and surprisingly hard to keep a large codebase maintainable. The problems show up around the eighteen-month mark: modules nobody dares change, state files that take twenty...

21 Jul 2026 6 min read 4K

Storage Intermediate

ZFS for Production Storage

ZFS has a reputation for being complicated. It is not — it has a small number of decisions that are permanent, and a larger number that are trivially changeable. Knowing which is which is most of the skill. The permanent...

7 Jul 2026 6 min read 4K

Cloud Advanced

AWS Landing Zone Foundations

The decisions you make in an AWS account's first month determine how painful the next three years are. Landing zone work is unglamorous, invisible when done well, and extremely expensive to retrofit. This covers the foun...

30 Jun 2026 5 min read 5K