The Art of Refactoring

Refactoring is not about making code perfect. It is about making code more honest.

Each refactoring session is an opportunity …

Technology and Impermanence

Every framework will become obsolete. Every language will fade. Every architecture will be replaced.

This is not a cause …

Debugging as Meditation

When faced with a bug, the mind wants to rush toward solutions.

But the zen debugger sits quietly with the problem first.

They …

The Empty Function

A function that does nothing perfectly is better than a function that does everything poorly.

Sometimes the most powerful code is …

Simplicity in Code

The best code is not the cleverest code. It is the code that clearly expresses its intent.

When we write software, we are not just …

GKE

Enable API

gcloud services enable container.googleapis.com

Set Variable

export PROJECT_ID=$(gcloud config get-value project)

Create GKE Cluster …

This tutorial implements progression of code in Cloud Run from developer branches to production with automated canary testing and percentage based …

Flutter Firebase Auth Sample Integration

In this tutorial you will learn how to build an automated pipeline to ensure that you include security updates and patches in your container images.

Setting up a Flutter iOS app to use Firebase

Flutter Firebase Auth Setup for Android

A quick walkthrough using Google’s API Gateway

Top 10 Tips for Flutter in VS Code

Quick introduction to CloudRun serverless containers on GCP

OpenShift Install

OpenShift In 5 Minutes

Renaming the Application Package & BundleID after project creation

Setting up new Flutter from the command line

Deploy to Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Cloud Run, and Google Kubernetes Engine, with just a few commands

I’ve got this ESP8266 WiFi module hanging around that I’ve never really used. I also have a few Arduino UNOs sitting here not getting any use at the …

This article is a follow up to a couple previous ones, Global Kubernetes in 3 Steps on GCP which walks through setting up a global cluster, and Global …

In this article I’ll cover a variety of challenges I faced and solutions I figured out when deploying a real app to a Global Federated cluster using …

Creating a globally federated kubernetes cluster may sound daunting but it really only takes a few small steps. Create the project and cluster, …

In this short tutorial you’ll walk through a few simple steps to allow the Docker CLI to work with Google Container Registry.

In this tutorial we’ll walk through how to export your billing data to big query. We’ll then explore the schema and answer some common questions by …

A primer for setting up and using GKE, Google managed Kubernetes Cluster services.

This video show a quick overview of Google’s Cloud Launcher utility. With these prebuilt tools you can deploy a large variety of servers in just a few …

A short example of how very simple scripting can bootstrap Java development on Google Compute Engine.

A simple walkthrough of the Google Cloud Console and demo of creating a GCE instance