Thanks, but no thanks, Verizon!
I guess Verizon think they know what’s best for me. Recently got a nice little Verizon USB 760 Modem from work, not a new concept for me, just something to keep in touch while on the go. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleAsk your systems: “What’s going on?”
This is a sysadmin/devops-style post. Disclaimers are that I work with these tools and people, and like what they do. In some amount of our professional lives, we are tasked with bringing order to...
View ArticleA picture is worth a (few) thousand bytes
(Context alert: Know Chef. If you don’t, it’s seriously worth looking into for any level of infrastructure management.) TL;DR: I wrote a Knife plugin to visualize Chef Role dependencies. It’s here....
View ArticleThere’s a New Player in Town, named Habitat
You may have heard some buzz around the launch of Chef‘s new open source project Habitat (still in beta), designed to change a bit of how we think about building and delivering software applications in...
View ArticleExtending ECS Auto-scaling for under $2/month with Lambda
The Problem Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pretty cool. You ought to know that by now. if you don’t, take a few hours and check out some tutorials and play around. One of the many services AWS provides...
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