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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
192 essays and counting
re:Invent 2016: Serverless Goes Mainstream
AWS re:Invent just wrapped up and the message is clear: serverless is no longer experimental, it is the direction
AWS Organizations and Multi-Account Strategy
Designing a multi-account AWS architecture for enterprise workloads using Organizations, SCPs, and IAM patterns
Enterprise Migration: Lift-and-Shift vs. Refactor
When to move workloads to the cloud as-is and when to redesign them, learned from real enterprise migration decisions
Why I Bought a BMW 540i
On falling in love with a twenty-year-old German sedan and making my first big purchase in America
Pokemon Go and the Power of AR
Pokemon Go launched five days ago and the entire world seems to be outside catching virtual creatures
Starting at a Telecom Giant: Enterprise Cloud Architect
My first corporate role in America, designing cloud architecture at enterprise scale
Leaving Texas A&M, Entering Industry
After years of research and coursework, I am closing the grad school chapter and stepping into the industry
AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol: AI's Deep Blue Moment
DeepMind's AlphaGo just defeated one of the greatest Go players in history, and this feels fundamentally different from Deep Blue
Gravitational Waves Detected
LIGO just confirmed gravitational waves exist, and a hundred years of Einsteinian prediction suddenly became observable reality