Platforming The Future

As a seasoned technology leader with a passion for technology, I'm excited to share my insights on i...

Platform engineering is often described in terms of enabling teams, reducing friction, and accelerating delivery. Behind thos...

Large language models (LLMs) have made artificial intelligence (AI) widely visible by enabling systems that understand and...

My Toolbox

I've used a lot of great tools in my career, and this is not an exhaustive list. Unfortunately, I cannot list...

If you have not seen the news, Terraform CDK (also known as CDKTF) is dead. Hashicorp, an IBM company, sunset and archived...

Email remains a cornerstone of communication, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of messages is paramount. To combat th...

When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was first enacted, technology companies scrambled to be compliant. The...

Platform engineering aims to empower developers by providing them with a self-service infrastructure that abstracts away com...

I have recently seen an increase in bot scanning looking for WordPress exploits on this site. The bots will not find anythi...

Looking for an open-source alternative to Redis? Valkey was forked from Redis to address differences in governance, licen...

LM Studio is a user-friendly desktop application that allows you to run large language models locally on your device, offeri...

As you have probably heard, AI is a hot buzzword these days. Everyone is trying to get on the genAI bandwagon, but have you l...

What do 37Signals and Ahrefs have in common? Both companies have recently shifted from public cloud providers to on-pre...

Your organization uses both AWS and GCP and possibly a little Azure, but are you a multicloud or a polycloud consumer?...

In today's cloud-first world, organizations are rapidly adopting cloud technologies to drive innovation and scale their ope...

Many of my LinkedIn contacts, especially those in tech, are anxious about layoffs and our job market. One way to give your...

I just finished up another AWS reInvent conference. This is one of my favorite conferences. For those that have never been to...

I have been spending a fair amount of time recently in the world of distributed SQL so that I am well versed for a future pro...

I have worked at two different companies managing a "DevOps team". At each company, a team member came to me and said "We sho...

I have heard the term CDKTF twice in the last two weeks. For those that are not familiar with it, CDKTF is the Cloud Develop...

ClickHouse is a popular open-source column-oriented database that is known for its speed and scalability. It has gained sign...

Minikube is an open-source tool that enables developers to run a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally on their machines....

Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise container platform based on Kubernetes, offering simplified application development, deplo...

Platform engineering refers to the practices of designing, building, and maintaining the underlying technology platforms th...