I create independent Open Source tools
- GitHub's ReadME project: Balancing open source sacrifice and success
- Independent Open Source, with Alex Ellis - Kubernetes Podcast by Google
My books
📚 My eBook - Serverless for Everyone Else
Learn the use-cases for serverless functions through practical exercises. You'll deploy your own self-hosted functions, write code in Node.js and using examples will start to call HTTP APIs, add npm modules and understand how to monitor your code with Grafana.
Get the eBook on its own, or upgrade to the video workshop.
Take my netbooting Raspberry Pi workshop with K3s
I've just launched my netbooting workshop for Raspberry Pi. It was previously only available to sponsors. The new version includes a PDF, scripts and a community Slack channel as part of the package.
You'll setup your server with NFS and TFTP, configure filesystems for each of the RPis, get them booting up, measure the speed, then setup K3s in a HA configuration. From there you can learn what to deploy on the cluster, and find a few jump off points for going further.
Fast track your Go journey, or turn it up a level with Everday Go
- Learn unit testing and how to isolate dependencies
- Make lovely CLIs for internal tools and open source projects
- Monitor your services with Prometheus metrics
- Ship your code in a container with Docker
- Learn patterns and pitfalls for using Goroutines
Follow my journey and Open Source work
As a GitHub Sponsor, you'll receive weekly emails from me on my journey as an independent software developer, creating open source projects used by thousands of users and many companies in production. Check out the tiers and pick whichever suits you.

