Writing from 2015

December 22, 20158 min read

Grad School, Research, and Cloud Computing

Reflecting on a year of graduate research, distributed systems learnings, and the widening bridge between academia and industry

October 19, 20157 min read

Red Hat acquires Ansible and the configuration management landscape shifts, with implications for how we think about infrastructure automation

October 12, 20157 min read

AWS re:Invent 2015 showcased an ecosystem in overdrive, with new services, aggressive pricing, and a vision for cloud that keeps widening

August 14, 20157 min read

A technical deep dive into the architecture decisions, performance tuning, and lessons learned from running WordPress ecommerce on AWS

July 24, 20157 min read

Kubernetes hits 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation forms, signaling that container orchestration is ready for the enterprise

May 22, 20157 min read

Building a proof of concept ecommerce site with WordPress, WooCommerce, and AWS services to bridge theory and practice

April 27, 20157 min read

The Apple Watch arrived and with it a new computing form factor that raises fascinating questions about human-computer interaction

March 12, 20157 min read

Diving into cloud computing research in grad school, exploring virtualization, resource allocation, and the academic lens on distributed systems

January 20, 20157 min read

Starting my MS in Computer Science, navigating a new country, and stepping into research assistant life