Dispatches

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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.

192 essays and counting

Amazon introduces Spot Instances and a student tries to wrap his head around cloud economics

VMware renames and reimagines its platform as vSphere 4, and the data center will never be the same

A new runtime called Node.js puts JavaScript on the server and everything I thought I knew about web architecture shifts

Deep in Red Hat territory, preparing for the RHCE certification and discovering what system administration really means