An important thing when you are setting up PagerDuty is to make sure that that the responder has as much context as possible to recent changes of the system. At PlushCare we use CircleCI heavily and making sure that a responder to an incident can attribute to a recent change is extremely important in making sure that our uptime and SLOs are met. We currently use CircleCI for all deploys to production from a branch named Prod.

An important thing when you are setting up PagerDuty is to make sure that that the responder has as much context as possible to recent changes of the system. At PlushCare we use Terraform heavily and making sure that a responder to an incident can attribute to a recent change is extremely important in making sure that our uptime and SLOs are met. We currently use Terraform Cloud to manage our Terraform state and planning/applying any changes pushed to GitHub.

Recently I had an issue where Terraform did not seem to be loading the correct provider. I was getting the following result from a terraform init -upgrade even though I had updated the provider name in versions.tf 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Warning: Additional provider information from registry The remote registry returned warnings for registry.terraform.io/terraform-providers/cloudflare: - For users on Terraform 0.13 or greater, this provider has moved to cloudflare/cloudflare.

This article helped troubleshoot some hard to replicate issues I had in Kubernetes during deployments/scaling events.

This articled helped me figure out why I was getting random 502 errors when using uWSGI behind an AWS ALB.

Great findings in here for running Kubernetes using AWS EKS. I have taken a lot of these findings and used them in my setup of EKS using Terraform.

Today marks the end of an incredible chapter in my life—my last day at Track Revenue. It’s been a transformative 18 months since I joined the Software Engineering team fresh out of California State University, Stanislaus. While my journey was filled with challenges and struggles, I emerged stronger and more knowledgeable than ever. I embarked on this adventure while still living with my parents, with my girlfriend Aubrey two hours away completing her senior year at Stan State.