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

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Key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019, including Outposts general availability, EKS on Fargate, and what they mean for enterprise infrastructure

Patterns and pitfalls of containerizing legacy Java WAR applications running on JBoss and WebLogic

GitOps is changing how we think about Kubernetes deployments by making Git the single source of truth for cluster state

Migrating payment processing systems to the cloud while maintaining PCI compliance and zero downtime