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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
192 essays and counting
2014: The Year of Containers
Looking back at a year that fundamentally changed how the industry thinks about deploying and running software
Accepted to Texas A&M: America, Here I Come
I got my acceptance letter for MS in Computer Science and my life is about to change completely
re:Invent 2014: Lambda, Aurora, and the Serverless Future
AWS Lambda might be the most important cloud announcement since EC2 and I am still wrapping my head around it
Terraform: The IaC Tool I Have Been Waiting For
HashiCorp just released Terraform and it fills the infrastructure-as-code gap that has been bothering me for months
Docker 1.0: Production Ready
Docker hits version 1.0 and the container ecosystem is exploding in every direction
Google Announces Kubernetes
Google just open-sourced their container orchestration system and this could change everything about how we run infrastructure
CoreOS: A Container-Optimized OS
CoreOS is rethinking what a server operating system should be in a world built on containers
Moto Razr: My Uncle Brought From America
The Motorola Razr and the tradition of uncles bringing impossible gadgets from America