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

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Everyone is talking about cloud computing and nobody seems to agree on what it means so I tried to figure it out myself

Google made a phone operating system and it is open source and my brain will not stop thinking about the implications

Google released a web browser and it is shockingly fast and I have opinions about this

I got my hands on a real Linux server and learned more in two weeks than I did in a semester of classes

Apple just announced the iPhone 3G and I think the way we use the internet is about to fundamentally shift

Google just opened up their infrastructure to regular developers and I cannot stop thinking about it

A wide-eyed engineering student discovers the internet and decides to document the journey