writing
Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
192 essays and counting
Grad School, Research, and Cloud Computing
Reflecting on a year of graduate research, distributed systems learnings, and the widening bridge between academia and industry
Red Hat Acquires Ansible
Red Hat acquires Ansible and the configuration management landscape shifts, with implications for how we think about infrastructure automation
re:Invent 2015: AWS Is Unstoppable
AWS re:Invent 2015 showcased an ecosystem in overdrive, with new services, aggressive pricing, and a vision for cloud that keeps widening
Architecting WordPress on AWS: EC2, RDS, and S3
A technical deep dive into the architecture decisions, performance tuning, and lessons learned from running WordPress ecommerce on AWS
Kubernetes 1.0 and the Birth of CNCF
Kubernetes hits 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation forms, signaling that container orchestration is ready for the enterprise
AWS-Hosted WordPress Ecommerce POC
Building a proof of concept ecommerce site with WordPress, WooCommerce, and AWS services to bridge theory and practice
Apple Watch Launches Wearables into the Mainstream
The Apple Watch arrived and with it a new computing form factor that raises fascinating questions about human-computer interaction
Cloud Computing Research with Dr. Young Lee
Diving into cloud computing research in grad school, exploring virtualization, resource allocation, and the academic lens on distributed systems
First Week at Texas A&M Research Lab
Starting my MS in Computer Science, navigating a new country, and stepping into research assistant life