As DevOps adoption picks up pace, the signs are everywhere. Infrastructure as code once a backwater concept, and a hoped-for ideal, has become an essential to many startups. Why Might That Be? My theory is that devops enables the business in a lot of profound ways. Sure it means one sysadmin can do much more,…
A consultant costs more per hour than a developer you can hire right? That depends! A big firm may cost a few thousand per day. But a smaller firm or one-man shop can bring you savings in line with a team hire. 1. You’re Still Looking Have you been looking for 3 months? 6 months?…
More and more startups are looking at Redshift as a cheaper & faster solution for big data & analytics. Saggi Neumann posted a pretty good side-by-side comparison of Redshift & Hadoop and concluded they were tied based on your individual use case. Meanwhile, Bitly Engineering concluded Redshift was much easier. Why Should You Choose Redshift Outpacing Hadoop…
I was just reading Oliver Eidel’s blog. He had a great post, with some provocative ideas. Pioneers versus Process people. Now since I love to play devil’s advocate, after reading this thought-provoking article, I thought I would write a bit of my take. Are Pioneers and Process Really Characteristics Of Two Different People? As Oliver describes…
I was recently reading Greg Kogan’s blog Simple Systems have less downtime. It really caught my attention. As a professional services consultant over the years, I’ve worked with almost 200 firms. And many of those required the unraveling of complex systems. And systems that were no longer well understood after the first wave of builders have…
I’ve worked with close to 200 startups over the years. So, I’ve seen a lot of stuff. Some of the get-rich-quick managed to get broke even quicker. And others saw great engineers leave behind a clunky maze of an architecture with little or no documentation. Here in this guide, I’m going to share some factors…
If you’re building anything in the public cloud these days, you’re probably using some automation. There are a lot of ways to reach the goal posts and a lot of tools to choose from. In my case I’ve put Terraform to use over and over again. I’m built vpcs, public & private subnets, and bastion…
I was just reading the Register, which is sort of the UK’s version of Slashdot, and they had a jaw-dropping title. NASA moved 247 petabytes into AWS and then later learned about EGRESS costs OMG! Facepalm. Wow. To say this is a disaster is an understatement. Could it have been prevented? Not likely by 100% strategic…
I was having a conversation with a colleague recently. We were discussing DevOps, and the topic of Ansible came up as I was advocating it as a great tool to get things done. Here’s what he had to say…“I’ve tried using Ansible a few times and this is what I found with it. It is…
I know everyone is talking about the pandemic at the moment, so I thought I would sidestep the topic, and continue to discuss what I know best. Which is the public cloud! Of late, I see more and more discussions on CTO forums, and in the news on surprise AWS bills. Did you hear what happened…