Dispatches

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

192 essays and counting

Following AWS re:Invent remotely and picking out the announcements that will actually change how we work

Everyone is talking about microservices but most explanations miss the point entirely

A hands-on comparison of Chef and Ansible from someone who actually needs to pick one for production infrastructure

How we cut server provisioning from five days to under four hours using automation and VMware templates

Docker 0.1 just dropped and containers are suddenly accessible to everyone, not just kernel wizards