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

Reflecting on a year of graduate research, distributed systems learnings, and the widening bridge between academia and industry

Red Hat acquires Ansible and the configuration management landscape shifts, with implications for how we think about infrastructure automation

AWS re:Invent 2015 showcased an ecosystem in overdrive, with new services, aggressive pricing, and a vision for cloud that keeps widening

A technical deep dive into the architecture decisions, performance tuning, and lessons learned from running WordPress ecommerce on AWS

Kubernetes hits 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation forms, signaling that container orchestration is ready for the enterprise

Building a proof of concept ecommerce site with WordPress, WooCommerce, and AWS services to bridge theory and practice

Diving into cloud computing research in grad school, exploring virtualization, resource allocation, and the academic lens on distributed systems