Cloud, DevOps, Evangelism
Mar 23, 2017 |
Last week I noted that I had come to the end of the 3 year lease of my Ford Focus Electric - my first electric car. At the time, I didn’t indicate what replaced it, which is what this post will cover. Requirements: I learned a lot about my needs in the last 3 years. I used that to inform my next set of requirements. 200+ miles range. Range anxiety on an electric car is...Mar 20, 2017 |
No - I'm not leaving Dell 😊. 3 years ago I bought my first fully electric car – a 2014 Ford Focus Electric. You can read about my initial impressions, but today is for my final ones, because my 3 year lease is up. I've been quite happy with the Focus Electric, overall. Driving Dynamics : I always trusted the car. Like the ICE Focus and the Focuses (Foci?) before it, the Ford Focus Electroc...Feb 23, 2017 |
UPDATE: Thanks for all the support and great resumes. For now we’ve closed the process and are considering the candidates we have. Once we’ve made some hires, you know where you’ll find more info! Of course you do :). In case you hadn’t heard, the Field Evangelism team I run here at Dell is pretty awesome. We’ve got seriously fun, smart people like Sam Maracinni, Tommy Trogden, Luke Mahon, Brian Verkley & Fabio Chiodini already...Dec 28, 2016 |
The VMworld Community Quad Community is such a strong force in technology, and yet often underestimated. There are dozens of project and tools out there that are successful because of their communities (sometimes in spite of their technical quality ahem PHP, Drupal, etc), and some die on the vine because of a failure to nuture community. I dont have anyway to back this up, but I suspect that the there are times that community managers...Aug 19, 2016 |
For those of you that don’t know, Reddit is a pretty major site on the internet. They bill themselves as the ‘front page of the Internet’, and they are #25 for traffic globally. They are based in San Francisco and have about 80 employees, the majority of which focus just on keeping the site alive and performing well. Think about that for a moment - they have a single site, and at least 40 employees...Jan 14, 2016 |
I posted earlier this year that I was changing roles - just within the first couple weeks its been a whirlwind internally letting people know, meeting with EMC leadership, getting silly technical issues fixed so I report the right way internally, etc. But its also been fun - this is a brand new team, and with my colleagues, we get to shape it from the start. Here’s a quick description. #So What Does My Team...Jan 5, 2016 |
Last yeah I posted about the process of converting my blog to a ‘static’ site vs. Wordpress, and what that took. One of the choices I made at that time was to host the site using GitHub Pages because of the ease of use. Publishing was a simple matter of git commit && git push so its was great. However, I did find a few things over the last year I wasn’t a fan of....Jan 4, 2016 |
People make all sorts of predictions this time of year. Analysts do it. Media do it. Heck, even executives do it. I don’t make these kinds of posts or predictions, because honestly if I thought I could predict that well I wouldn’t publish it - I’d be investing in the market :). Instead I do the smart thing and invest in mutual funds :). That being said, I do recognize trends, and when I see...Oct 27, 2015 |
I had an interesting chat on twitter today with a friend and colleague Wade O’Harrow. He used to be at a bunch of places, but currently leads the SE team for HyTrust, a security company (yes, thats oversimplifying it). He started the exhange with: Data is growing at exponential rates, and the trend of Corporate data breaches is staggering. still many question the need for protection. and we eventually wandered into the discussion of what...Sep 9, 2015 |
Almost 2 years ago, shortly after EMC acquired ScaleIO, I demonstrated the deployment of ScaleIO in AWS at significant scales - up to 1000 nodes. It was pretty fun and got some solid traction on Chad’s blog and at an EMCworld keynote. Now, that was cool, but I’ve been asked many times for how to replicate that. While the code was open source, it wasn’t very clean, and was quite fragile, and no one but...Sep 4, 2015 |
A Cloud Foundry Story - Idea to Production in 90 Minutes One of the best parts of what I do is making demos - they are an awesome combination of playing with the latest technology, making it do something cool (but understandable) and not having to support it for more than a couple months. This year, for EMCworld and VMworld, I wrote a demo called ‘Vasco da Gama’ that was used in a number of...Aug 6, 2015 |
Yesterday I had the privilege of attending the inception meeting for the newest incubated Cloud Foundry project - Abacus. If you haven’t looked at it, the short version is that its a service usage and metering tool for Cloud Foundry services, so we can go a bit further than the ‘all or nothing’ method that we have today. Services can submit usage data to a CF instance, have it rated and billed as appropriate. Even...May 14, 2015 |
I thought I’d just write a quick review of the Cloud Foundry Summit I attended last week. Note: Everything was recorded and will be posted over the next couple weeks, and when that happens I will post another set of links to the best talks. #Major Announcements: 1400 attendees (+50% from last year). JP Morgan Chase joins the CF Foundation The second major financial to join New Relic joins the federation The first major SaaS...May 1, 2015 |
So, yet again, EMCworld is coming up, and I’ll be at the show. ##What I’m Doing This year, I don’t have a session in which I’ll be presenting, but I will be working the ‘App Agility’ booth with Tyler Britten and Drew Dimmick. We’ll be showing off a fully opensource application that Tyler and I wrote using all of the 12-factor principles, running on Cloud Foundry (via Pivotal Web Services) and doing live, on-dmand, no-net...Apr 8, 2015 |
A few years ago I wrote a review of a screen protector from Zagg, that got some visibility, and was recently contacted by Tech Armor to see if I was willing to do a similar review of their new line for the iPhone 6. disclosure, they sent me a free one to test, but do not (and did not ask to) exercise any control over this post - nor are they an advertiser, as I...