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There's no place like ~ ... if only I had just one #technology #tools Mar 25, 2022
Observations on the complexity of software ...how does it not break? #technology #randomthoughts #software Jun 29, 2021
Systems programming is hard there are dragons everywhere #linux #systems #programming #technology #ebpf Jun 10, 2021
Sorry your tests are so slow... who knew it could be so painful? #technology #startup #engineering Jun 8, 2021
So... emacs? Can we hang out? words I never thought I'd say #computing #editors #emacs Jun 4, 2021
Things that I'm grateful for this year has been weird and yet awesome Dec 30, 2020
eBPF map lookup it's a party in user-space #linux #kernel #c May 29, 2019
An introduction to ptrace #linux #software #computing #engineering May 1, 2019
Constants of Software Development things I learned along the way #software #engineering Apr 1, 2019
AWS Glue Python Script Dependencies #aws #python Jul 1, 2018
AWS Batch with Spot Block #aws #gpu #science #batch May 24, 2018
AWS Batch and GPU-based Workloads #aws #gpu #science #batch Apr 30, 2018
Lambda routing #aws #cloud #photography #tech Oct 16, 2017
High Throughput SNS with C# #aws #development #c# #tech Jul 31, 2017
VMWare AHCI Driver Woes #vmware #sysadmin #tech Jun 21, 2017
A personal photo gallery V1: S3, Lambda and Rekognition #aws #cloud #photography #tech Jun 16, 2017
Growing your FreeNAS USB root partition #freebsd #zfs #tech Jun 12, 2017
The value of boring #engineering #software-architecture Oct 9, 2015
SOA for Humans #engineering #soa Oct 5, 2015
The birth of the monolith services have their place #engineering #software #architecture Sep 21, 2015
Setting Boundaries in Your Code #engineering #soa Aug 22, 2015
Carving up the Monorail #engineering #software Jul 20, 2015
Guiding Principles for Building Services #engineering #software #soa #architecture Jul 12, 2015
Thoughts on Dependencies #engineering #software Apr 9, 2015
Moving fast (into sharp corners) #engineering Mar 9, 2015
Kenshō, a PostgreSQL dashboard for ops folks #java #cloud #ops #postgresql #metrics Nov 3, 2014
Orchestration of Chef Resources with ZooKeeper #ruby #cloud #ops #zookeeper #chef Oct 25, 2014
Book: Chef Essentials #chef #writing #books Sep 25, 2014
Interfaces in Ruby #ruby #development Sep 25, 2014
Thoughts about Fog.io #ruby #cloud #ops Sep 24, 2014
Compiling psycopg2 under Mavericks #computing #python #postgresql Apr 23, 2014
Capping Riak Memory Consumption #computing #riak #performance May 10, 2013
Mounting LVM partitions from Xen Server #computing #xen #virtualization #linux May 10, 2013
Rackspace Cloud load balancers and WebSockets #computing #networking #web #cloud #rackspace Apr 22, 2013
Sphinx, MacTeX and Macports #computing #python #documentation Mar 4, 2013
Java's date formatter is not thread safe #computing #java Jan 23, 2013
Converting between Proj4 and WKT with Python #computing #python #gis Jan 20, 2013
Creating a custom CRS with GeoTools #computing #java #gis Jan 20, 2013
USGS Elevation Data with Java #computing #java #gis Dec 30, 2012
Migrating your Chef Server #computing #ruby #chef #devops Dec 21, 2012
DAO Testing with Hibernate #java #dropwizard #testing Nov 20, 2012
Python has a simple HTTP server #python Nov 12, 2012
Xen DomU clock issues #computing #xen #virtualization Nov 12, 2012
PostGIS with Hibernate Spatial and Dropwizard #computing #java #hibernate #postgis #gis #soa Nov 10, 2012
Using Sphinx for RESTful API docs #computing #python #writing #docs Nov 9, 2012
Riak MapReduce with Ruby #computing #ruby #riak Oct 29, 2012
Ruby Enterprise Edition and Ubuntu 12.04 #computing #ruby #ubuntu #linux Oct 1, 2012
GeoTools, Maven and JAI, Oh My! #computing #java #gis #maven #geotools #jai Aug 18, 2012
VRDP and VirtualBox May 30, 2011
MySQL, Sub-selects and IN() #database #mysql #programming Mar 25, 2011
Testing asynchronous workers #gearman #ruby #programming #testing Mar 11, 2011
Managing background processes #gearman #ruby #programming Mar 8, 2011
Rid yourself of NWAM Mar 1, 2011
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