tjll.net

I’m Tyler. I’m a full stack 10x developer with 1,000 medium posts about javascript your average salty ops engineer. I’d suggest starting at my blog for my off-hours technical writing or github to see what I’ve been up to lately.

Here are the current problems most interesting to me:

• leveraging functional programming and type safety to improve software reliability
• practicing extreme automation in any context
• self-hosting advocacy and data privacy
• using container scheduling technology to facilitate scalable and maintainable system architecture
  • kubernetes kubernetes kubernetes

social media, i guess?

• github
• keybase
• twitter
• linkedin
• mastodon

speaking

• DevOpsDays Boise 2019
  • Loving DevOps by Distrusting Everything
• Boise Cloud Meetup August 2018
  • A Short Tour of the Elastic Stack
• Elastic{ON} 2018
  • Kubernetes, Docker, and Containers at Elastic: Monitoring, Logging, and More
• PuppetConf 2017
  • Custom Types and Providers: Modeling Modern REST Interfaces and Beyond
• SouthEast LinuxFest 2017
  • Everyday Programming for Everyday Problems
• Open Source 101 2017
  • A Short Tour of Linux Distributions (slides)
  • The Open Source Developer’s Toolbox (slides)
• SouthEast LinuxFest 2016
  • Getting Started with the ELK Stack
• Elastic{ON}¹⁶
  • Tasty, Tasty Dogfood: How We Use the Elastic Stack at Elastic
• DevOpsDays Charlotte 2015
  • DevOps as Software Development
  • What Can I Do With the ELK Stack?
• OpenWest 2015
  • Scaling Elasticsearch: Designing for Performance and Availability
  • Elasticsearch: You Know, for s/Search/Operations/

writing

• personal blog
• other articles:
  • Use HashiCorp Vault to Manage Secrets
  • Use Buildbot for Software Testing on Ubuntu 18.04
  • Container Instrumentation with the Elastic Stack
  • Pods, Tokens, and a Little Glue: Integrating Kubernetes and Vault in Elastic Infrastructure
  • Grokking systemd for Fun and Profit
  • Gathering Insights From Data: An Overview of the Elastic Stack
  • Effective Elasticsearch Plugin Management with Docker
  • Host a Terraria Server on Your Linode
  • Elasticsearch Command Line Debugging With The cat API
  • Visualizing Apache Webserver Logs in the ELK Stack on Debian 8
  • How To Securely Manage Secrets with HashiCorp Vault on Ubuntu 16.04
• professional blogging
  • Nextmv
  • hackernoon
  • opensource.com

print

• Hacker Monthly - SSH Kung Fu

software

just look at my github

opinions

• build and host it yourself
• the terminal is the best user interface that currently exists
• modal editing is 💯👌
• most software is bad
• our industry is doomed to perpetually reinvent the wheel