Writing from 2009

December 18, 20097 min read

AWS Keeps Growing: Spot Instances

Amazon introduces Spot Instances and a student tries to wrap his head around cloud economics

December 17, 20097 min read

Looking back at 2000-2009, a decade that took us from dial-up connections to cloud computing, and changed everything

October 22, 20097 min read

After months of studying, late nights, and lab rebuilds, I passed the RHCE exam and learned more than just Linux

September 3, 20097 min read

VMware renames and reimagines its platform as vSphere 4, and the data center will never be the same

July 8, 20097 min read

A new runtime called Node.js puts JavaScript on the server and everything I thought I knew about web architecture shifts

June 10, 20097 min read

After the Vista disaster, Microsoft releases the Windows 7 Release Candidate and it actually feels good

February 10, 20096 min read

Deep in Red Hat territory, preparing for the RHCE certification and discovering what system administration really means