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

192 essays and counting

Looking back at a year that fundamentally changed how the industry thinks about deploying and running software

AWS Lambda might be the most important cloud announcement since EC2 and I am still wrapping my head around it

HashiCorp just released Terraform and it fills the infrastructure-as-code gap that has been bothering me for months

Docker hits version 1.0 and the container ecosystem is exploding in every direction

Google just open-sourced their container orchestration system and this could change everything about how we run infrastructure

CoreOS is rethinking what a server operating system should be in a world built on containers