I'm a backend engineer currently working in the DevOps space. In addition to cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, I maintain an active interest in coding, particularly Python, Go and Rust.
I started coding over ten years ago with C# and Unity as a hobbyist. Some years later I learned Python and began working as a backend software engineer. This has taken me through several companies and tech stacks and given me a lot of exposure to cloud technologies.
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Dec 28, 2025 · 4 min read · I will no longer be posing new articles here. My new blog can be found at https://simoncrowe.blog. How did I do it? My main objectives were to run my self-hosted blog in a way that was both simple and cheap. I’m a fan of the fedeverse model of social...
Join discussionMay 17, 2025 · 5 min read · In truth, this isn’t a minimal viable product; it’s a minimum viable backend. I’ve been a platform engineer for too long to start throwing together UIs, even in my spare time. If you're interested in a full-fledged product, at least one startup is do...
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May 10, 2025 · 5 min read · This is another short post about my pet project, Shortlist. The project's main aims were to help me pass my CKAD exam (which I luckily did) and give me some exposure to operating LLMs in the cloud. I wanted to do this with as small an impact on my ba...
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May 3, 2025 · 6 min read · While working on my pet project Shortlist, I needed to send emails. While I could have used a transactional email service like Mandrill, I wanted something cloud-based that could be configured with infrastructure-as-code. I couldn’t find any email se...
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Jan 25, 2025 · 3 min read · In part one of this post, I talked about my tribulations trying to solve 2024’s Advent of Code using Elixer. I ended with my solution to part 1 of day 6, which was too inefficient to re-use for part 2. This article details how I re-wrote my day 6 sol...
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