Notes from my learning

Technology & Innovation

I enjoy exploring new technologies and putting what I learn into practice to solve business problems. These are notes from that ongoing journey.

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Articles

Practical experiments, explained as I learn.

Infrastructure field guideAbout 15 min read

Git for Infrastructure Teams: A Practical Guide

A practical guide to commits, branches, checkout, merge, rebase, history graphs, GitOps workflows, and repository platforms for infrastructure, automation, DevOps, and platform teams.
- Git
- Infrastructure
- Automation
- DevOps
Configuration managementAbout 12 min read

Puppet Configuration Management: Use Cases and Lab Exercises

Learn Puppet’s desired-state approach, common Linux configuration use cases, Hiera, troubleshooting, and guided exercises using a public lab implementation.
- Puppet
- Linux
- Hiera
- Troubleshooting
Team guideAbout 10 min read

Pair Programming with OpenAI Codex in Your Code Editor

Set up the OpenAI Codex IDE extension, start with a focused task, and review code changes as a team. Includes illustrated setup steps and a practical review-first workflow.
- OpenAI Codex
- Pair programming
- VS Code
- Developer workflow
Hands-on labAbout 12 min read

AWS, Terraform and Puppet: A Hands-on Infrastructure Lab

A practical walkthrough of provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform, then managing Linux configuration with Puppet—with GitHub keeping the work versioned.
- AWS
- Terraform
- Puppet
- Automation