Dispatches
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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
192 essays and counting
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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
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Hadoop Is Eating the Enterprise
MapReduce, HDFS, and the big data infrastructure stack are quietly reshaping how enterprises think about data processing
cloud
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VMware Certifications and the Enterprise Virtualization Landscape
Studying for VMware certifications and discovering how deeply virtualization has reshaped enterprise infrastructure
cloudcareer
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AWS CloudFormation: Infrastructure as Code Begins
AWS just launched CloudFormation and the idea of declaring your infrastructure in a template file is quietly revolutionary
cloudterraform