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

Amazon introduces Spot Instances and a student tries to wrap his head around cloud economics

Looking back at 2000-2009, a decade that took us from dial-up connections to cloud computing, and changed everything

After months of studying, late nights, and lab rebuilds, I passed the RHCE exam and learned more than just Linux

VMware renames and reimagines its platform as vSphere 4, and the data center will never be the same

A new runtime called Node.js puts JavaScript on the server and everything I thought I knew about web architecture shifts

After the Vista disaster, Microsoft releases the Windows 7 Release Candidate and it actually feels good

Deep in Red Hat territory, preparing for the RHCE certification and discovering what system administration really means