The history of cloud-init and virtualization in UbuntuThe story about the creation of cloud-init begins in October 2007. At the time, Ubuntu would have a “developer summit” shortly after each…Jan 23, 20231Jan 23, 20231
This week I learned… Protocol buffersThis is the first in miniseries of articles that will culminate in an introduction to gRPC.Apr 8, 2021Apr 8, 2021
This week I learned: How to learnI get distracted on Youtube. I watch one thing and end up watching 10 other things, because ADHD is cool that way. I’m an absolute sucker…Apr 1, 2021Apr 1, 2021
On Evolution, Inevitability and Inertiaor: How I learned to stop worrying and love the cloudJun 8, 2017Jun 8, 2017
A few thoughts on remote workersA couple of days ago, I celebrated my 10 year anniversary of working from home. Same basement, 6 different jobs, WILDLY different…Jun 7, 2017Jun 7, 2017
Reflective monitoringWe’re using Consul for our cloud deployment. Consul makes it very easy and cheap to run health checks on every node, validating its own…Dec 2, 2014Dec 2, 2014
The Seven-Day WeekendDeclan Meaney, a coworker at Reliance, recommended “The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works” by Ricardo Semler. I’ve haven’t…Aug 6, 2014Aug 6, 2014
168,000 instances in how many hours?The ever awesome James Page posted an article on an experiment conducted by the Ubuntu Server team:Jun 23, 2014Jun 23, 2014
