Fresh/Brewed

This is not a sharp picture - not even that good. I was flying early in the morning friday July 19th when I realized something was really wrong. The ticket counter was in a flurry of checking lists and creating paper tickets. I would learn within 30m that Spirit Airlines was SOL in the airport and the TSA was checking my paper ticket against printed manifests. I couldn't be prouder of my own teams at work for having dug in and weathered the Crowdstrike storm - it's a testament of having skilled, available and committed SREs. By the time I landed and was back at my desk to help, the main production systems were healthy. I can't really speak to the rest - but my day wrapped later than usual friday but it was an amazing team effort and really, I couldn't be prouder of the people I work with at WellSky

Wordpress in Kubernetes

Published Jun 20, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I know a lot of people started blogging with Wordpress. Honestly, I started with a modified version of a BBS Perl script. But I know for a long time Wordpress was king of blogging.

Frappe ERPNext: ERP maybe?

Published Jun 15, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I had a note to checkout Frappe cloud and ERPNext. The idea is it is an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning suite that is easy to install and host. We will try and set it up and explore the ...

Configure8: Amazing service dashboards

Published Jun 13, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I found Configure8 when searching for other service catalogue applications. It is a relatively new SaaS offering that came into existence around 2021. It has a surprising number of features in a ...

Lyft Clutch

Published Jun 9, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I found out about Lyft Clutch when searching for something completely different.

Backstage.io: Part 1

Published Jun 7, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

I saw Backstage.io demo’ed at OSN 2023 this year during the Medtronic presentation by Brad Schlict and Derek Winters. I thought it was pretty slick and would solve a lot of issues I have, and, per...

Cloud Mounts to Windows

Published Jun 2, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

An issue that has come up recently on maintaining some Windows Server hosts is how to use cloud storage with Windows.