Hello World! :)

I'm Rock. I work as a DevOps/SRE. Not "engineer" though: in Quebec the title is legally protected, you sit an exam to earn it, and honestly I'm glad. Everywhere else, "engineer" gets stretched so thin it stops meaning anything. My respects to all actual engineers :)

I've been at this for 25-plus years: local IT support, then infrastructure at scale, a stint in education, eventually landing in CI/CD and observability, which is where I've been since 2020. The AI wave hasn't dulled the appeal; if anything it's sharpened it. The more software the world ships, the more interesting observability gets. And AI itself isn't getting a pass: costs to control, quality to track, a parade of new KPIs to keep up with.

I love Ansible. Use it daily. It's my best friend. Grafana is right up there too. Claude Code is newer in my life but already daily. Big fan of open source in general.

Day job is in the public health sector. Every dollar I spend on tooling is a taxpayer dollar, and I take that seriously. It keeps me biased toward well-proven tools with high-quality communities behind them, over shiny, over-hyped, often-proprietary traps.

My view: everything can be observed, optimized, and automated. The open source community has handed me most of the tools I use to do that, and I owe it more than I can ever repay. This is where I try, by sharing what I find.

Other things I won't shut up about: cats (my own, plus any cat in the street). Plants (the house is a jungle, the office is also a jungle). And Final Fantasy VIII, which I'm aware is controversial, and which I refuse to apologize for. Also, hopefully obviously, Donnie Darko, plus everything David Lynch ever touched, plus Lost (finale included). Pattern's clear by now: my brain is tickled by anything loopy, time-travel-y, abstract. Things only observable through heart and consciousness. The exact opposite of my professional life.