Day One at a Major Entertainment Company
Starting a new chapter as a cloud architect at one of the world's largest entertainment enterprises
- career
- personal
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Ideas tested in public.
Essays on autonomous agents, systems architecture, technical leadership, and the work of making software dependable.
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re:Invent 2016: Serverless Goes Mainstream
AWS re:Invent just wrapped up and the message is clear: serverless is no longer experimental, it is the direction
- cloud
AWS Organizations and Multi-Account Strategy
Designing a multi-account AWS architecture for enterprise workloads using Organizations, SCPs, and IAM patterns
- cloud
Enterprise Migration: Lift-and-Shift vs. Refactor
When to move workloads to the cloud as-is and when to redesign them, learned from real enterprise migration decisions
- cloud
Why I Bought a BMW 540i
On falling in love with a twenty-year-old German sedan and making my first big purchase in America
- nostalgia
- personal
Pokemon Go and the Power of AR
Pokemon Go launched five days ago and the entire world seems to be outside catching virtual creatures
- personal
Starting at a Telecom Giant: Enterprise Cloud Architect
My first corporate role in America, designing cloud architecture at enterprise scale
- career
- cloud
Leaving Texas A&M, Entering Industry
After years of research and coursework, I am closing the grad school chapter and stepping into the industry
- career
- personal
AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol: AI's Deep Blue Moment
DeepMind's AlphaGo just defeated one of the greatest Go players in history, and this feels fundamentally different from Deep Blue
- ai
Gravitational Waves Detected
LIGO just confirmed gravitational waves exist, and a hundred years of Einsteinian prediction suddenly became observable reality
- personal
Grad School, Research, and Cloud Computing
Reflecting on a year of graduate research, distributed systems learnings, and the widening bridge between academia and industry
- cloud
- career
Red Hat Acquires Ansible
Red Hat acquires Ansible and the configuration management landscape shifts, with implications for how we think about infrastructure automation
- cloud
- terraform
re:Invent 2015: AWS Is Unstoppable
AWS re:Invent 2015 showcased an ecosystem in overdrive, with new services, aggressive pricing, and a vision for cloud that keeps widening
- cloud
Architecting WordPress on AWS: EC2, RDS, and S3
A technical deep dive into the architecture decisions, performance tuning, and lessons learned from running WordPress ecommerce on AWS
- cloud
Kubernetes 1.0 and the Birth of CNCF
Kubernetes hits 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation forms, signaling that container orchestration is ready for the enterprise
- kubernetes
- cloud
AWS-Hosted WordPress Ecommerce POC
Building a proof of concept ecommerce site with WordPress, WooCommerce, and AWS services to bridge theory and practice
- cloud
Apple Watch Launches Wearables into the Mainstream
The Apple Watch arrived and with it a new computing form factor that raises fascinating questions about human-computer interaction
- personal
Cloud Computing Research with Dr. Young Lee
Diving into cloud computing research in grad school, exploring virtualization, resource allocation, and the academic lens on distributed systems
- cloud
- career
First Week at Texas A&M Research Lab
Starting my MS in Computer Science, navigating a new country, and stepping into research assistant life
- career
- personal
2014: The Year of Containers
Looking back at a year that fundamentally changed how the industry thinks about deploying and running software
- cloud
- kubernetes
Accepted to Texas A&M: America, Here I Come
I got my acceptance letter for MS in Computer Science and my life is about to change completely
- career
- personal
re:Invent 2014: Lambda, Aurora, and the Serverless Future
AWS Lambda might be the most important cloud announcement since EC2 and I am still wrapping my head around it
- cloud
Terraform: The IaC Tool I Have Been Waiting For
HashiCorp just released Terraform and it fills the infrastructure-as-code gap that has been bothering me for months
- terraform
- cloud
Docker 1.0: Production Ready
Docker hits version 1.0 and the container ecosystem is exploding in every direction
- cloud
- kubernetes