I’m Randall, a software and dev ops engineer living near Dallas, TX. I’m no founder or CEO but I do find my job fascinating, and here you can watch me investigate ideas and concepts related to all things software.
Semantic Kernel is a Large Language Model orchestration framework being actively developed by Microsoft. This project is a learning effort to better understand the internals of Semantic Kernel and investigate it's deployment into production environments.
Here I go through an automation process I recently implemented for this blog. As a user of Obsidian I wanted to be able to write content in Obsidian and automatically convert the content into the mdx format used for the articles in this blog. It is a simple script that runs at build time and updates all blog articles with the most recent content found in my obsidian fault.
This blog post is a detailed technical guide documenting the process of building and deploying a professional portfolio website using Next.js 14 and the Tailwind CSS Spotlight template. I walk through the complete development workflow, including project setup, containerization with Docker, infrastructure automation using Terraform, and deployment to Google Cloud Platform's Cloud Run service.