NOTES FROM THE FIELD
Practical notes on building and running software, platforms, and the tools around them.
Kubernetes Secrets are base64, so why pay for Secrets Manager? I traced every value from Terraform to a running pod: ConfigMaps, Parameter Store, External Secrets, IRSA and Pod Identity, with a local lab and real output.
When a usage limit hits, Hermes Agent can hand the session to another account and keep going. How I pooled two OpenAI accounts, how to do it with API keys or several providers, and what two weeks of logs say it really costs.
A practical guide to structuring Go applications for maintainability and change. From simple packages and MVC to dependency inversion, Clean Architecture, and Ports & Adapters for backends, CLIs, workers, and web apps.
Five years of building and operating production systems taught me that the most useful engineering lessons rarely come from the happy path. This blog is where I’ll write them down.