2020.12.298 min read
2020: The Year Everything Changed
A year that began with a mysterious virus in Wuhan ended with the world permanently altered, and the acceleration of trends that will define the next decade
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Thoughts on engineering leadership, distributed systems, architecture, and the craft of building software.
2020.12.058 min read
re:Invent 2020: Virtual, Massive, and ECS Anywhere
AWS re:Invent went fully virtual and announced ECS Anywhere, extending container orchestration beyond the cloud and into any infrastructure you operate
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2020.11.137 min read
Apple M1: ARM Beats x86
Apple is about to ship ARM-based Macs, and if the rumors are right, this will be the most significant architectural shift in personal computing since the move from PowerPC
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2020.11.067 min read
The US Election and Social Media's Reckoning
The 2020 US election exposed the fundamental tension between platform scale and platform responsibility, and there are no easy answers
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2020.09.107 min read
Terraform 0.13: Provider Requirements Done Right
Terraform 0.13 introduces proper provider source addresses and module-level provider requirements, fixing one of the most persistent pain points in infrastructure as code
terraformcloud
2020.08.296 min read
Kubernetes 1.19: The Platform Is Mature
Kubernetes 1.19 extends the support window to one year and moves Ingress to GA, signaling that the platform has crossed from innovation to infrastructure
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2020.07.306 min read
Tesla Model Y: My Third Tesla
Taking delivery of a Model Y and reflecting on how Tesla went from a curiosity to the default choice for anyone paying attention to the automotive industry
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2020.05.317 min read
GPT-3: AI Can Write
OpenAI's GPT-3 paper demonstrates that scaling a language model to 175 billion parameters produces something qualitatively different from what came before
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2020.03.186 min read
The World Went Remote Overnight
COVID-19 just forced the largest remote work experiment in human history, and cloud infrastructure is the only reason it is working at all
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2020.01.256 min read
A Virus in Wuhan: How Technology Responds
Reports of a novel coronavirus are emerging from China, and the tech response is already revealing how the world handles crises differently in 2020
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