Leaving Yahoo!
This will be my last week at Yahoo!. I’m taking up a position at Engine Yard to help scale a company that’s making Ruby (on Rails) scale. This also means it’s my last week in Bangalore. I’ll be leaving...
View ArticleFour yanks and a kiwi walk into a serviced apartment in South Korea….
…and spend the entire evening in socks laying out post it notes all over the floor. I’m pleased to report no games of Twister ™ ensued. I’m a huge fan of using “cards” as tasks and making planning...
View ArticleFrom beginner to spinner… a decade later
“Stay one trick ahead.” My debut as an author.
View ArticlePlanning Meetings — starting w/ a blank page
Over the past week, we’ve (Cloudscaling) been going back and forth with a client on an integration point. Each team has been volleying back and forth multiple, multi-page documents of product plans,...
View ArticleDevops Days 2010: Does the Cloud Need DevOps? Does DevOps Need the Cloud?
The videos of Devops Days finally got posted to InfoQ. Here is the panel discussion that I participated in with Ben Black, Adrian Cole and Justin Dean (moderated by John Willis). We discussed how...
View ArticleElastic pricing for clouds is not a requirement
There is more than one way to do cloud billing. Many deployments out there use the Amazon way of billing for things — no commits, pay-per-use. I think a reminder needs to be given that pay-per-use...
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