Writing from 2019

December 28, 20198 min read

The 2010s: A Decade of Cloud, Mobile, and Early AI

Reflecting on a decade that transformed technology and my career, from Linux administration to cloud infrastructure leadership

December 9, 20197 min read

Key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019, including Outposts general availability, EKS on Fargate, and what they mean for enterprise infrastructure

November 7, 20198 min read

A retrospective on four years of leading cloud infrastructure teams, from technical decisions to organizational dynamics

October 3, 20196 min read

Adding a Model S to the garage alongside the Model 3 and what it means to go fully electric

July 15, 20197 min read

Patterns and pitfalls of containerizing legacy Java WAR applications running on JBoss and WebLogic

May 10, 20197 min read

GitOps is changing how we think about Kubernetes deployments by making Git the single source of truth for cluster state

April 13, 20197 min read

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole in M87, and the technology behind it is as remarkable as the science

March 22, 20197 min read

Migrating payment processing systems to the cloud while maintaining PCI compliance and zero downtime

January 18, 20196 min read

Living with all three flagship ecosystems simultaneously and what each one gets right