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Jun 2019
Status Management
I learned about “status management” recently while reading Daniel Coyle’s The Culture Code. Since then I can not stop seeing status…
30
May 2019
Opinions
Some of the best meetings I’ve had in recent years are those that I have had no opinions on. These were meetings where folks had…
26
Feb 2019
Incidents — Trends from the Trenches
Most publicized production incidents are war stories. Each involves drama with dead ends, twists and turns, and a victory at the end…
10
Jan 2019
The Value is in Dealing with the Messy Stuff
Over the last several years, I had the opportunity to lead a few projects that were too large for any single team to execute. I also dealt…
29
Dec 2018
Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications
We want near-instantaneous elasticity of resources and never have to pre-allocate resources or pay for more resources than needed. We also…
19
Nov 2018
Taming the Rate of Change
These are great times for pushing code to production. Thanks to the cloud, micro-services, and investments in CI/CD pipelines, teams that…
20
Jun 2018
Cloud Optimization Circus
If you are a cloud adopter rapidly adopting cloud services, but not developing the finance governance muscle, you will certainly be…
11
Feb 2018
DevOps and Governance
Regulation and threat aware DevSecOps culture is where DevOps was 5–10 years ago. Auditors, controls, regulations and compliance are not…
12
Nov 2017
Serverless: Looking Back to See Forward
Last week, I attended an all-day CIO forum on cloud in Seattle, organized by one of Seattle’s top venture fund groups. Several notable…
29
Sep 2017
Technology Decision Making and Architecture Reviews
In this note, I would like to implore you to not use architecture reviews as a means to improve quality of technology decisions. Instead, I…
18
Sep 2017
Accept | Tentative ✓ | Decline
I’m done with the excuse of not being in charge of my time. Over the last two months, I started taking a few steps to deliberately simplify…
31
Jul 2017
Paying it Forward
I recently had an opportunity to volunteer for an Indonesian company called Vasham through the RippleWorks Foundation. Over a period of…
27
Jul 2017
DevOps, Postmortems and Cloud Spend
As I wrote previously here, here, and most recently here, I’m a strong advocate and practitioner of “cost awareness as part of DevOps…
21
Jun 2017
DevOps is not DevOps
I learned DevOps the hard way about five years ago when I inherited some infrastructure and software that had zero automation and…
20
May 2017
How do We Manage Cloud Spend at Expedia
Since writing State of AWS Compute Pricing, several people asked me how we manage the cloud spend at Expedia. My colleague Abiade Adedoyin…
13
Apr 2017
There is No Pendulum
As public cloud spend goes up, will the pendulum swing back to enterprise data centers? Sorry, but there is no pendulum to swing back.
12
Mar 2017
How to Think About Multi-Cloud
Public clouds are no longer equivalent. These are platforms with some overlapping basic capabilities and yet different in many respects…
25
Feb 2017
State of AWS Compute Pricing
As flexible as it is, compute in AWS is optimized for the old capex world. It is a world where demands are predictable, consumption can be…
17
Feb 2017
Fault Domains and the Vegas Rule
(Cross posted at https://techblog.expedia.com/2017/02/16/fault-domains-and-the-vegas-rule/)
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Dec 2016
Taking the Time
Linear thinking is effortless and easy. All it takes is processing events as they occur as a sequence of actions and reactions with no…
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