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Authenticity
Authenticity and Acting
(Saturday, January 28, 2023)
Shaping Your Authenticity
(Sunday, January 15, 2023)
Books
2021 in Books
(Tuesday, December 28, 2021)
Career
Building Career Resilience
(Saturday, July 30, 2022)
Work as a Socio-Business Relationship
(Sunday, June 5, 2022)
Career Choices and Business Models
(Friday, April 29, 2022)
Must DOs for Interviewers
(Friday, March 25, 2022)
On Getting Promoted — Push vs. Pull
(Sunday, February 21, 2021)
Jumping Across Career Ladders
(Monday, November 16, 2020)
Cloud
Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications
(Saturday, December 29, 2018)
Cloud Optimization Circus
(Wednesday, June 20, 2018)
DevOps and Governance
(Sunday, February 11, 2018)
Serverless: Looking Back to See Forward
(Sunday, November 12, 2017)
DevOps, Postmortems and Cloud Spend
(Thursday, July 27, 2017)
DevOps is not DevOps
(Wednesday, June 21, 2017)
How do We Manage Cloud Spend at Expedia
(Saturday, May 20, 2017)
There is No Pendulum
(Thursday, April 13, 2017)
How to Think About Multi-Cloud
(Sunday, March 12, 2017)
State of AWS Compute Pricing
(Saturday, February 25, 2017)
Fault Domains and the Vegas Rule
(Friday, February 17, 2017)
Cloud Lock-in and Change Agility
(Monday, December 12, 2016)
Don’t Build Private Clouds
(Thursday, November 24, 2016)
Turning Containers into Cattle
(Sunday, February 21, 2016)
It’s the Manageability Stupid
(Tuesday, November 10, 2015)
Lessons from the Cloud Bunker
(Sunday, August 16, 2015)
OpenStack Summit Keynote Video and Slides
(Monday, June 1, 2015)
Give Me Bare-Metal
(Monday, November 10, 2014)
OpenStack on Diet
(Tuesday, November 4, 2014)
Automate Everything — But Don’t Ignore Drift
(Monday, October 6, 2014)
Monitoring and Alerting for OpenStack
(Thursday, October 17, 2013)
Private Cloud Operating Principles
(Monday, September 16, 2013)
OpenStack is not Cloud
(Thursday, July 25, 2013)
ClickOps
(Sunday, June 23, 2013)
Code the Infra
(Saturday, April 13, 2013)
Data
Don’t Chase Data Mesh, Yet
(Wednesday, February 2, 2022)
Broken State of Data
(Friday, November 19, 2021)
HTTP
Can Pipelining Help?
(Saturday, February 5, 2011)
Chatty Apps
(Tuesday, January 25, 2011)
Location vs. Content-Location
(Friday, October 10, 2008)
Incidents
Studying an Incident
(Monday, December 30, 2019)
Why Learn from Incidents
(Tuesday, December 17, 2019)
Penalties and Purgatory
(Wednesday, October 9, 2019)
Forming Failure Hypothesis
(Friday, September 27, 2019)
If Only Production Incidents Could Speak
(Thursday, July 18, 2019)
Incidents — Trends from the Trenches
(Tuesday, February 26, 2019)
Taming the Rate of Change
(Monday, November 19, 2018)
Leadership
Followership
(Sunday, June 18, 2023)
Authenticity and Acting
(Saturday, January 28, 2023)
Shaping Your Authenticity
(Sunday, January 15, 2023)
Inputs and Outputs
(Sunday, June 26, 2022)
On Org Design Vulnerabilities
(Sunday, May 8, 2022)
Making Up Movies
(Saturday, March 12, 2022)
Managing Yourself
(Sunday, January 30, 2022)
On Feedback
(Sunday, December 26, 2021)
Cultivate the Coaching Practice
(Sunday, December 12, 2021)
Tell Me More
(Tuesday, December 7, 2021)
Leading vs. Participating
(Tuesday, October 5, 2021)
My Leadership Document — 2021 Edition
(Friday, June 11, 2021)
Stop Feeding the Monkey – Journaling
(Sunday, March 21, 2021)
On Being Present
(Sunday, March 7, 2021)
Status Management
(Monday, June 10, 2019)
Opinions
(Thursday, May 30, 2019)
The Value is in Dealing with the Messy Stuff
(Thursday, January 10, 2019)
Technology Decision Making and Architecture Reviews
(Friday, September 29, 2017)
Accept | Tentative ✓ | Decline
(Monday, September 18, 2017)
Taking the Time
(Tuesday, December 27, 2016)
On Influencing
(Sunday, August 7, 2016)
Managing yourself
Followership
(Sunday, June 18, 2023)
Making Up Movies
(Saturday, March 12, 2022)
Managing Yourself
(Sunday, January 30, 2022)
Stop Feeding the Monkey – Journaling
(Sunday, March 21, 2021)
On Being Present
(Sunday, March 7, 2021)
Status Management
(Monday, June 10, 2019)
Opinions
(Thursday, May 30, 2019)
Accept | Tentative ✓ | Decline
(Monday, September 18, 2017)
Taking the Time
(Tuesday, December 27, 2016)
Metrics
Inputs and Outputs
(Sunday, June 26, 2022)
Miscellaneous
2020 — A Year of Privilege
(Thursday, December 31, 2020)
Lessons from 2019
(Tuesday, December 31, 2019)
Retinitis Pigmentosa
(Monday, December 23, 2019)
Organizations
On Org Design Vulnerabilities
(Sunday, May 8, 2022)
Programming
Nodejs vs Play for Front-End Apps
(Friday, March 25, 2011)
BigPipe Done in Node.js
(Sunday, July 25, 2010)
Rest
Performance of RESTful Apps
(Tuesday, March 1, 2011)
Can Pipelining Help?
(Saturday, February 5, 2011)
Explaining State in HATEOAS
(Wednesday, October 15, 2008)
Serverless
Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications
(Saturday, December 29, 2018)
Serverless: Looking Back to See Forward
(Sunday, November 12, 2017)
Volunteering
Paying it Forward
(Monday, July 31, 2017)
Work
Work as a Socio-Business Relationship
(Sunday, June 5, 2022)
Career Choices and Business Models
(Friday, April 29, 2022)
Let’s Discuss Attrition
(Sunday, September 5, 2021)
On Getting Promoted — Push vs. Pull
(Sunday, February 21, 2021)