Docker Changes Everything About Deployment
Docker 0.1 just dropped and containers are suddenly accessible to everyone, not just kernel wizards
- cloud
- kubernetes
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Essays on autonomous agents, systems architecture, technical leadership, and the work of making software dependable.
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2012: The Year the Cloud Became Real
A year-end reflection on how 2012 marked the turning point when cloud computing stopped being experimental and became the default
- cloud
- personal
VMware, RAID, and Storage Architecture Lessons
Deep lessons from enterprise storage architecture work, including RAID configurations, VMware storage design, and the failures that taught me the most
- cloud
Ansible, Puppet, Chef: The Configuration Management Wars
A practitioner's comparison of the three major configuration management tools and why I think the landscape is about to get interesting
- cloud
- terraform
Google Compute Engine and the Three-Horse Cloud Race
Google just announced Compute Engine at I/O, and suddenly the cloud is a three-way competition between AWS, Azure, and GCP
- cloud
Running a Linux NOC: Chasing 99.9% Uptime
What it actually takes to keep Linux infrastructure running at 99.9% uptime, from the perspective of someone who lives in the NOC
- cloud
- career
AWS DynamoDB: Fully Managed NoSQL Changes the Game
DynamoDB went GA earlier this year and I think it represents a fundamental shift in how we think about databases
- cloud
Linux Containers Before Docker: LXC, Cgroups, and Namespaces
The container landscape before Docker existed, and why LXC, cgroups, and namespaces matter more than most people realize
- cloud
- kubernetes
The Rise of DevOps: When Developers and Ops Stop Fighting
The DevOps movement is breaking down the wall between development and operations, and it is about time
- cloud
Hadoop Is Eating the Enterprise
MapReduce, HDFS, and the big data infrastructure stack are quietly reshaping how enterprises think about data processing
- cloud
VMware Certifications and the Enterprise Virtualization Landscape
Studying for VMware certifications and discovering how deeply virtualization has reshaped enterprise infrastructure
- cloud
- career
AWS CloudFormation: Infrastructure as Code Begins
AWS just launched CloudFormation and the idea of declaring your infrastructure in a template file is quietly revolutionary
- cloud
- terraform
NoSQL Is Having Its Moment
MongoDB, Cassandra, and the database paradigm shift that is making relational purists uncomfortable
- cloud
The Linux Admin Life: RHEL in Production
What day-to-day Linux system administration actually looks like when real systems depend on you
- cloud
- career
Platform as a Service Goes Mainstream
Heroku and the rise of PaaS are changing how developers think about deploying applications
- cloud
OpenStack: The Open Source Cloud Revolution
Rackspace and NASA are building an open source cloud platform and it could change everything
- cloud
AWS Keeps Growing: Spot Instances
Amazon introduces Spot Instances and a student tries to wrap his head around cloud economics
- cloud
VMware vSphere: The Future of Virtualization
VMware renames and reimagines its platform as vSphere 4, and the data center will never be the same
- cloud
Node.js: JavaScript Everywhere
A new runtime called Node.js puts JavaScript on the server and everything I thought I knew about web architecture shifts
- cloud
Studying for RHCE
Deep in Red Hat territory, preparing for the RHCE certification and discovering what system administration really means
- career
- cloud
What Cloud Computing Actually Means
Everyone is talking about cloud computing and nobody seems to agree on what it means so I tried to figure it out myself
- cloud
My First Linux Server
I got my hands on a real Linux server and learned more in two weeks than I did in a semester of classes
- cloud
- career
Google App Engine Changes Everything
Google just opened up their infrastructure to regular developers and I cannot stop thinking about it
- cloud