Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Issue #4 of my newsletter is live

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Issue #4 This issue has links to an article I recently had published on public cloud security as well as to discussions around using Ansib...

Links for 05-25-2016

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Six Ways Ansible Makes Docker-Compose Better Lost containers tell no tales. Time to worry • The Register The End of Food - The New Yorker Al...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Data, security, and IoT at MIT Sloan CIO Symposium 2016

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As always, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium covered a lot of ground. Going back through my notes, I think it’s worth highlighting a couple sessio...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Links for 05-10-2016

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Why 2016 made a mockery of Nate Silver The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible | The Verg...

My newsletter experiment

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There’s a certain range of materials–curated links to comment upon, updates, and short fragments–that to me have never felt particularly com...

The need for precise and accurate data

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Death by GPS (Ars Technica) : What happened to the Chretiens is so common in some places that it has a name. The park rangers at Death Val...
Monday, May 09, 2016

Interop 2016: The New Distributed Application Infrastructure

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The New Open Distributed Application Architecture from Gordon Haff The platform for developing and running modern workloads has cha...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

DevOpsDays London 2016

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April London was cool. But DevOpsDays London was hot and happening, selling out its venue in the shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral. In many r...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Connected Things 2016 recap

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The Internet-of-Things (IoT) and DevOps seem to be in a race to win the “most conferences/events” race. The IoT corner notched a pair last ...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Building a garage hoist for my canoe

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A couple of weeks ago, I finally got around to putting together a system that could 1.) Get my canoe into my garage in the winter when ther...
Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Specialists may have their day

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger, who among other accomplishments led IBM’s early Linux efforts, has a great post up regarding special report on Moo...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Links for 03-30-2016

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Integrating Bulletproof Security into App Development - eSecurity Planet Enigma | Home Google launches Public Datasets program | Hacker News...
Monday, March 28, 2016

The "laptops" in my bag

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I took one of my Chromebooks to an event last week and a couple of people asked me about it. So I thought I’d take the opportunity to talk a...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

What's in my bag?

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These pieces about travel gear seem to be popular and I travel a lot, so here you go. Nothing on clothes or footwear here but I cover most ...
Friday, March 18, 2016

DevOps Lessons presentation at IEEE DevOps events

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DevOps: Lessons from Manufacturing and Open Source from Gordon Haff Earlier this week I spoke at the IEEE DevOps for Hybrid Cloud ev...
Monday, March 14, 2016

It's about team size: Not monolith vs. microservice

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Basecamp’s David Heinemeier Hansson has written probably the most readable and balanced dissection of the monolith vs. microservices debate...

Links for 03-14-2016

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Why the Wingdings font exists - Vox 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services - All Things Distributed MIT Media Lab’s Journal of Desi...
Friday, March 04, 2016

At least one of our long national nightmares is over

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An interesting piece of news crossed my desk (well, actually appeared in my browser) this week: The (presumably) final resolution of the en...
Tuesday, March 01, 2016

2016 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

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I just received a notice for this year’s MIT Sloan CIO Symposium  that’s happening at MIT on May 18. I’ve covered it as press for a number ...

Links for 03-01-2016

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The City of the Eternal Boom - Texas Monthly The road not taken | The Verge DevOps Teams Should be Tracking These 9 Metrics What The Hype Be...
Friday, February 26, 2016

One of the few real snows we had this year

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Links for 02-11-2016

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How Zoning Shaped the New York Skyline | Untapped Cities Maps Mania: Your Source for Vintage Map Tiles Our definitive ranking of every Coen ...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Book Review: Cooking for Geeks, Second Edition

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As a single book, this combination of food science, recipes, equipment, ingredients, experimentation, interviews, and geeky humor is hard ...

Links for 01-22-2016

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Washington, D.C., hasn't seen a blizzard like this in nearly 100 years - Guess where I’m scheduled to fly on Saturday AM (obviously won...

The new distributed application development platform: Breaking down silos

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A document came out of Gaithersburg, Maryland in 2011. Published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology it was simply titled...