I'm Cam. I build software and I write it down.
Senior DevOps engineer working on cloud infrastructure and reliability. I keep two small blogs here: Tech Bytes for the engineering, Life Bytes for everything else. One byte at a time.
- Why I'm building this
A podcast on influence made me realize I'd been telling myself the wrong reason for why I'm building ClimbIQ, and the reason turns out to matter more than I thought.
- Day two is where the time actually goes
A piece on platform engineering made the case that internal tooling should chase the recurring day-to-day friction of running a service, not the one-time setup, and I think it's right.
- Work that matters
Some notes to myself on visibility versus impact, after reading a good piece on picking what to work on.
- AI makes quality worse, just not in the way I expected
AI didn't make me write worse code, it removed the friction that used to push me toward fixing the real problem instead of patching around it.
- What to say instead of the applications count
A framing shift for talking about a job search that actually gives someone something to respond to, from thinking through what ClimbIQ should be helping people do.
- Hello again
Rebooting camzabriskie.com, one byte at a time.