The Patcave

This is just a short rant I guess. Recently, I've wanted to work on some projects requiring me to write a web front-end and every time I revisit doing this, I'm left feeling very frustrated and defeated.

AWS IAM is the global permissions system that AWS uses. People are often mystified by how it works and often end up just giving everything *.* permissions. 

In this post I'll discuss things I learned while managing the IAM configuration at Narrative Science and hopefully allow you can learn from our failures so you can manage your IAM account in a much for sane and scalable way.

I have been Technical Staff at TF2Maps.net for about a year as of writing this. One of the big things that bothered me when I first got onboard was how disorganized and chaotic the state of the infrastructure was. There wasn't a lot of it but it was old and fragile, and soon to be some serious hardware issues that needed to be addressed.

I'm an engineer, which means I love my tools and there's some tools I hate. I guess that comes with the territory. This is the collection of tools I try to use anytime I can for Cloud Engineering tasks.

Okay okay, maybe that title is a bit of an overstatement, but I have very exciting news!

Among my many hobbies; one I've been doing since the beginning of the pandemic is level design, specifically for the game: Team Fortress 2.

I'm excited to share that today Valve purchased a level that I worked on (with a team of 8 others)!