writing
Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
192 essays and counting
The 2010s: A Decade of Cloud, Mobile, and Early AI
Reflecting on a decade that transformed technology and my career, from Linux administration to cloud infrastructure leadership
re:Invent 2019: Outposts, EKS on Fargate, and the Hybrid Future
Key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019, including Outposts general availability, EKS on Fargate, and what they mean for enterprise infrastructure
Leading Cloud Infrastructure: Lessons After Four Years
A retrospective on four years of leading cloud infrastructure teams, from technical decisions to organizational dynamics
Tesla Model S: The Second Tesla Joins the Fleet
Adding a Model S to the garage alongside the Model 3 and what it means to go fully electric
Containerizing Enterprise Java: From WAR to Docker
Patterns and pitfalls of containerizing legacy Java WAR applications running on JBoss and WebLogic
The Rise of GitOps: ArgoCD and Flux
GitOps is changing how we think about Kubernetes deployments by making Git the single source of truth for cluster state
The First Photo of a Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole in M87, and the technology behind it is as remarkable as the science
Tier-1 Commerce Payment Systems Migration
Migrating payment processing systems to the cloud while maintaining PCI compliance and zero downtime
Three Flagship Phones: Samsung, Apple, Pixel
Living with all three flagship ecosystems simultaneously and what each one gets right