Google Announces Kubernetes
Google just open-sourced their container orchestration system and this could change everything about how we run infrastructure
- kubernetes
- cloud
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Essays on autonomous agents, systems architecture, technical leadership, and the work of making software dependable.
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CoreOS: A Container-Optimized OS
CoreOS is rethinking what a server operating system should be in a world built on containers
- cloud
- kubernetes
Moto Razr: My Uncle Brought From America
The Motorola Razr and the tradition of uncles bringing impossible gadgets from America
- nostalgia
- personal
From No Phone to Nokia 6230
Growing up in an era without mobile phones and the day my uncle brought home a Nokia 6230 with a camera
- nostalgia
- personal
AWS re:Invent 2013: Announcements That Matter
Following AWS re:Invent remotely and picking out the announcements that will actually change how we work
- cloud
What Microservices Actually Mean
Everyone is talking about microservices but most explanations miss the point entirely
- cloud
Chef vs Ansible: Which Tool?
A hands-on comparison of Chef and Ansible from someone who actually needs to pick one for production infrastructure
- cloud
- terraform
Security Automation: Days to Hours Provisioning
How we cut server provisioning from five days to under four hours using automation and VMware templates
- cloud
NSA PRISM: The Internet's Innocence Dies
Edward Snowden just revealed that the US government has been surveilling internet communications on a massive scale
- personal
Starting as Lead Systems Engineer
New role managing a Linux NOC team and learning what leadership actually means
- career
Docker Changes Everything About Deployment
Docker 0.1 just dropped and containers are suddenly accessible to everyone, not just kernel wizards
- cloud
- kubernetes
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
Raspberry Pi and the Maker Movement
The Raspberry Pi Model B shipped earlier this year and it reignited something I forgot I had: the joy of tinkering
- personal
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
Remembering Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs passed away on October 5th and the world lost its greatest product mind
- personal
Hadoop Is Eating the Enterprise
MapReduce, HDFS, and the big data infrastructure stack are quietly reshaping how enterprises think about data processing
- cloud
Steve Jobs Resigns: End of an Era
Steve Jobs just resigned as CEO of Apple, and it feels like the end of something important in technology
- personal
VMware Certifications and the Enterprise Virtualization Landscape
Studying for VMware certifications and discovering how deeply virtualization has reshaped enterprise infrastructure
- cloud
- career