It was really about the friends we made along the way
01.19.2022
Anyone will tell you that the people are what make Puppet special. I know this isn't an Oscars acceptance speech, but there are so many people I want to thank.
I'll never admire another engineer as much as I admired Libby Molina. Libby made me feel like I had a …
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Why I'm Leaving Puppet
01.19.2022
It feels like my last day at Puppet was March 13th, 2020. The physical office was a second home where I spent more waking hours than the series of apartments I lived in, and while in the context of the pandemic I felt so lucky I also came to realize …
read morePuppet Memories
01.18.2022
I got married this summer, and in thinking about what it means to spend your life with someone I've been thinking a lot about how much just being there matters. I think at startups especially, and Puppet in particular which has so many long-time employees, reminiscing and reinforcing those experiences …
read morePuppet Orchestrator --application Example
10.26.2016
As always, this technical blog post began when I was having a problem
and couldn't find the answer on the internet. I'm writing tests for
Puppet's application orchestrator which involve setting up an
application remotely then running some variations of puppet job
run. In particular, I need to specify an …
Minimal Programmatic Puppet Class Creation
10.13.2016
This post began when I was trying to programmatically create my own Puppet class, googled this exact title, and came up totally empty handed. After wading through dozens of StackOverflow posts and puppet docs, I still wasn't sure what I needed to accomplish this or how it would fit into …
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