About Frank
Husband. Father. Internet Plumber. Tech Author. Amateur Photographer. Decent Cook.
Internet and efficiency expert by day, father and husband by night.
Spend my days working on complex software development, operations, and business problem consulting. Usually web based and often using Python, Django, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes based infrastructure.
In the evenings, I focus on my amazing family and friends. Between the two I'm constantly busy, but never bored.
Posts
Random thoughts on tech and life.
Lets just try it
The consequences of casually implementing changes in a work process with a "let's just try it" mindset. Discerning changes which are measurably positive or widely accepted by your team.
The Napkin Plan
A techinque to avoid prematurely optimizing your code and architecture.
Break the Glass
Allow employees to get emergency elevated credentials safely and accountably
Setting up Grafana to persist in PostgreSQL with Helm
There are tons of Grafana and Helm tutorials out there, but I could not find any that did not use the default option of a Kubernetes persistent volume to store Grafana's data. It wasn't difficult, but wanted to document it here for the next person.