Patrick PicardinITNEXTMy Golang Bookshelf — The Amazing, Good, and not recommended!Recently, I was sharing book recommendations on Twitter when discussing Dependency Injection. The thread was a bit tongue in cheek, but it…Sep 6, 20223Sep 6, 20223
Patrick PicardinITNEXTObservations and thoughts after building 3 kubernetes platforms in Financial Services Industry —…In the fifth and final part of this blog series, I share my observations in the cloud resource brokering space (deploying Cloud resources…Aug 29, 20221Aug 29, 20221
Patrick PicardinITNEXTObservations and thoughts after building 3 kubernetes platforms in Financial Services Industry —…In the fourth part of this blog series, I share my observations in the policy enforcement space.Aug 27, 2022Aug 27, 2022
Patrick PicardinITNEXTObservations and thoughts after building 3 kubernetes platforms in Financial Services Industry —…In the third part of this blog series, I share my observations regarding the use of GitOps to manage platform components and workloads…Aug 22, 20221Aug 22, 20221
Patrick PicardinITNEXTKeeping Software Dependencies Up to Date with DependabotLately, I’ve picked up a side project that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, replace an application I wrote in Perl to Golang (yeah…Aug 19, 2022Aug 19, 2022
Patrick PicardinITNEXTObservations and thoughts after building 3 kubernetes platforms in Financial Services Industry —…In the second part of this blog series, share my observations regarding the use of workload identities and how to manage secrets based on…Aug 19, 20222Aug 19, 20222
Patrick PicardinITNEXTObservations and thoughts after building 3 kubernetes platforms in Financial Services Industry —…Last week, I completed another consulting engagement in the Financial Services / Banking industry here in Canada. This wrapped up my 3rd…Aug 15, 20221Aug 15, 20221
Patrick PicardinITNEXTIstio — Impacts of namespace sameness with traffic management in a Multi-Cluster environmentIn a recent blog, I covered how global MeshConfig settings can be configured in Anthos Service Mesh. Now it is time to talk about the…Jul 18, 2022Jul 18, 2022
Patrick PicardinITNEXTAnthos Service Mesh — Configuring global settingsRecently, as I worked through an issue with Service Discovery in a multi-cluster setup with a Google managed control plane, I came with…Jul 18, 2022Jul 18, 2022
Patrick PicardinITNEXTOPA — Validating PoliciesDeveloping OPA policies requires a combination of Rego language and YAML configuration. To validate that the policy is valid, there are a…Sep 20, 2021Sep 20, 2021
