Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Battery Ventures at Strata, Santa Clara

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Strata ’s theme this year is “Making Data Work”. The conference is sold out, but some of the sessions will be available  as a live stream...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Latest Local Music - Fractal, Beautiful Machines, Cash Pony, Moetar and Atomic Ape... and Mirthkon!

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There is a huge amount of good original new music that is looking for an audience. Most of what I listen to is from bands you've probabl...
Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Starting a new role at Battery Ventures

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Careful what you wish for. Take some side interests and activities that aren't central to your real job, have a bit too much fun with th...
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Looking back at 2013, with pointers to 2014

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I wrote a prediction post a year ago so I'm going to review and update it. Here's last year in full " Looking back at 2012, wi...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Velocity and Volume - Speed Wins - Keynote at Flowcon

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November 1st was the first ever Flowcon, held in San Francisco, a new event to focus on continuous delivery related development topics. I ...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Free Communication is Disrupting Hierarchies

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Jeff Jarvis recently blogged : I doubt the net’s creators realized how subversive it was to connect anyone to anyone, bypassing the instit...
Thursday, September 05, 2013

Performance Testing of NetflixOSS for the Cloud Prize

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Where is everyone? I've been writing blogging and tweeting about performance and capacity planning for many years, so I thought I was c...
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Sunday, April 07, 2013

Tutorials and Training on Cloud Architecture and NetflixOSS

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There are two places that I'm giving in-depth training on cloud architecture and NetflixOSS this year. On May 22nd-23rd at Gluecon 201...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Comment on How Netflix Is Ruining Cloud Computing

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I wrote a long comment response to  how-netflix-is-ruining-cloud-computing  on Information Week, but they don't seem in a hurry to post...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The IT swamp draining manual for anyone who is neck deep in alligators

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I've spent the last year or so reviewing Gene Kim's new book - the Phoenix Project and encouraging him to get it finished. It came o...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Looking back at 2012, with pointers to 2013

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A collection of things that seem to have pivoted in 2012. Mobile Bandwidth Greater than Fixed Bandwidth I've been talking about LTE a...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Lots of Netflix talks at AWS Re:Invent

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[Update: here's video's of these talks  http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/12/videos-of-netflix-talks-at-aws-reinvent.html  along ...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Cloud Outage Reports

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The detailed summaries of outages from cloud vendors are comprehensive and the response to each highlights many lessons in how to build robu...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

What's a Distinguished Engineer?

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A recent post by John Allspaw on what it means to be a senior engineer reminded me of something I put together years ago while I was a Dist...
Sunday, September 02, 2012

Solar Power Update - Annual Costs

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I've blogged before about our solar power installation and we just completed our first full year where we didn't change anything, s...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Cloud Application Architectures: GOTO Aarhus, Denmark, October

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Thanks to an invite via Michael Nygard , I ended up as a track chair for the GOTO Aarhus conference in Denmark in early October. The track ...
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