Kendall Miller

Fairwinds | Blog

# Insecurity on the water I'm taking sailing lessons with my 12 year old son and he's as excited about it as I am. We have been out twice on a 37 foot sailboat with an incredibly patient instructor who calmly allows us to raise and then sheet in sails, ... Read More

I bike a lot. I bike long distances for exercise, I bike over mountains for meditative calm, I bike with friends to share an activity and a laugh (especially when that friend falls in an injury-free-and-hilarious way). I also bike to the store, to the market, to the bakery, and ... Read More

When I got my first (real) job washing dishes at an ice cream and sandwich shop, I spent every single penny I made in my first few paychecks. Then my dad suggested I start saving some money. I remember hearing the advice and thinking, "Huh, yeah I guess that makes ... Read More

As we head into 2023, it’s a great time to think about how you are using your tech stack, particularly Kubernetes. Many organizations jumped into Kubernetes in 2020, spurred to greater cloud adoption by the global pandemic. If you’re one of them, you probably started with a trial project before ... Read More

Policy Exists for a Reason You know that feeling where it's near midnight and you're outside of town and you pull up to a red light in your car and stop and start to wait. Initially you don't think much about it, but after a few seconds you realize there ... Read More

Physical Security Checks When I was a kid my father worked for the government and that sent us around the world to some interesting places. One of the places we lived had a huge compound for the United States Embassy. Inside this compound was the ambassador's house, office buildings for ... Read More

Cloud infrastructure has changed so dramatically in the last decade it's almost hard to believe. One of my first jobs in tech had a server room in a closet and we handled everything ourselves from the hardware and operating system to the network and even the CD drives we used ... Read More

The Cost of Ignoring Security Alerts One of the bigger character flaws that I have is that I buy very old vehicles because I hate owning new things. Most of the time this is fine. The time I drove my Suburban with 250,000 miles on it across the country was ... Read More

Kubernetes is Still New to Most People I managed to make it to my 30s before I had to buy a house and there are loads of reasons I wish I never had one.  ... Read More