A ticket out of GCP’s BeyondCorp Confusion Purgatory — Introduction I wrote this post because I find the BeyondCorp documentation by Google quite confusing, and occasionally a little misleading. Here is one good example from a presentation given by Google: First of all, the graph is misleading because ACM does not really enforce any requests, that’s just where you define…

And the lessons they taught me about life. — Towards the end of February I started thinking a lot about my future and where I want to be in the next ten years and the truth is that I really have no idea, the only thing I know, is that I want to be much better off than I…

My experience and how I did it — The Certification List GCP Professional Network Engineer GCP Professional Security Engineer GCP Professional Data Engineer GCP Professional Cloud Developer GCP Professional DevOps Engineer GCP Professional Collaboration Engineer Why do so many in such a short time? There are multiple reasons why I decided to go all out on GCP certs in such a short amount of time: One of my Forrest Gump Streaks

And why I will use Signal exclusively from now on — TLDR Check this awesome slides (which you can use as your WhatsApp status), courtesy of this Reddit post Hustling friends into Signal Today I deleted WhatsApp. I have been using Signal for years now almost exclusively but I kept it as a backup purely due to its mass appeal. On paper WhatsApp sounds okay. The…

Never buy mediocre eggs again! — Introduction I am a little obsessed with finding great quality eggs here in the UK so I wanted to keep a list for myself and share it with everyone on the best ones I could find. I will try to keep updating this post as I find more great egg brands. Spotting great quality eggs is fairly easy …

Some things I found confusing or did not like about Vault — Vault is, for the most part, great. Currently I don’t know of any other product that comes close to provide what it does, even for all the hundreds of managed tools and services that GCP and AWS provide, the closest I’ve seen is GCP’s secret manager, but even that doesn’t…

Four things you can do to minimise yak shaving — You wake up in the morning in a very good mood; you have some exciting ideas for your new project, let’s say migrating your microservices to kubernetes, or improve the monitoring of the whole company, your CI/CD pipelines, or whatever tickles your fancy. But first you need to do a…

Look for a person, not an ideal. — Recently a friend of mine told me he had found the most perfect girl he had ever met and he was totally smitten. Conversation was amazing; she was beautiful, funny, engaging, proactive and seemed to have a lot of interesting life and career goals. My friend is a bit of…

When deluding yourself can be a good thing… — In Spain we have a saying, “Piensa mal y acertaras”, which roughly translates as “think the worst and you won’t be far from wrong”. …