Revolt of the Simple - Jan 2024

tl;dr: Recklessly adopting tools because big tech uses them is the biggest problem in tech.

Architecting Observability - May 2023

tl;dr: 10 construction workers stand and watch one man dig a hole, that’s the cloud today!

Walmart's Hybdrid Cloud - Feb 2023

Walmart Cloud Native Platform (WCNP) is an interesting case study (though proliferating buzzwords garner the odd chuckle).

SaaS Propaganda - Jan 2023

I play devil’s advocate, steelmanning SaaS’ business use.

Antikubernetes Propaganda - Oct 2022

Once upon a time in a simpler world, there were but system admins. All these middleware, DNS, SMTP, firewall, network and security admins hadn’t yet splintered - the sysadmin responsable for all, gluing all teams together, making a system of discrete parts made by engineers and DBAs. Rare is the organization which has reached the scale to benefit from this specifications. More commonly, we poor moderns create systems too complex to wrap our heads around or escape (shackled to the costliest compute known to man).

Anticloud Propaganda - Jul 2022

tl;dr: What’s your cost per request (cpr)? How much does more monitoring and logging cost for what gain in uptime/reliability/visibility and more importantly, customer satisfaction?

Docker the Company's Death - Jul 2022

How to commercialize open source?