The work
Engineering
Thirty years of building and running infrastructure — from Unix systems and Cisco networks to AWS organizations, Terraform module libraries, and Kubernetes clusters serving billions of requests a day.
Cloud
- AWS
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- CloudFormation
Orchestration
- Ansible
- Puppet
- Chef
- Salt
Containers
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- EKS
- ECS
CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- CircleCI
- Jenkins
Data
- Postgres
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Mongo
Observability
- Datadog
- Splunk
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Résumé → Infrastructure repository LinkedIn steve@cohns.net
Observability
This site watches itself. Live uptime, latency, and cost dashboards — global synthetic probes and CloudWatch, all defined as Terraform, served from Grafana Cloud on the free tier. You can watch the database scale to zero and the bill go with it.
The other half
I'm a foodie
Recipes and video from the cooking I love, plus hands-on classes and workshops for groups of 1 to 100.
Say hello
Comments and conversation will live here.
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