Ever wondered how your favorite coffee shop gets your latte just right, every single time? Building a Generative AI application is a bit like that — it needs the right ingredients, the right process, and a dash of magic (aka, cutting-edge tech!). Welcome, fellow tech enthusiasts and caffeine …

🧊 The Freeze Picture this. You’ve got a fresh cup of coffee—maybe a nice Ethiopian Yirgacheffe dripping with floral notes. You sit down, crack your knuckles, and open up your IDE. You’ve got access to the most powerful AI models humanity has ever built. Gemini 1.5 Pro is blinking at you, ready to …

Hey there, fellow code enthusiasts, your friendly neighbourhood developer productivity nerd. If you’ve been following my caffeine-fueled coding adventures, you know I’m always on the lookout for tools and techniques that can supercharge our development workflows. And let me tell you, the …

Remember when SLSA, the software supply chain security framework, dropped in 2021? It was a major win for securing our software pipelines, and integration with Cloud Build has only made things sweeter. If you haven’t checked out the State of the DevOps Report 2022 yet, it’s your guide …

Picture this: a critical bug fix is ready, but it languishes in code review for days. Release schedules slip, customers get frustrated, and developer morale takes a hit. At Cymbal Coffee, we’ve been there and after a recent workshop discussing our DORA performance metrics, we saw a major …

Hey there, fellow code warriors! We all know the thrill of customising our [working | coding] environments, right? It’s like trying to find that perfect coffee grind for your latest beans to get an epic morning v60 brewed. I used to lose myself for hours, fine-tuning my terminal colours, …

If you’ve been following the tech scene lately, you’ve probably noticed the buzz around platforms and platform engineering. We have platform vs DevOps vs SRE posts recently like in the past we have seen DevOps vs SRE or DevOps vs DevSecOps or vs vs vs or DevOps is dead …… I know that …

Each month the Google UK&I technical sales team have a Campfire session 🏕️ 🔥 to share events, technical things of interest or just something fun. I had the honor of hosting the February get together and I also ended up taking on the “fun” aspect and picked to ramble about coffee ☕ …

Somethings different, did you change your hair? To be fair with lockdown v3.0 my hair has grown way beyond what I am used to but no that’s not it. Many years ago, back in the days of riding the CLI of network devices at HSBC and a little after I expanded my scope from network management …

You have worked hard on creating your application, its coding is perfection and you have tested it locally but now you want to containerise it and get it into the hands of users! Like an 80’s and 90’s text based adventure game (yes, I know they existed before they became popular on …