Jan 17, 2020Annual Review 2019Continuing my long [one time] tradition of writing an annual review, here is my 2019 review. The format is simple: What went well this year? What didn’t go well this year? What I learned this year What Went Well New Baby As we waited to ring in the new year with New York so that…6 min read
Aug 5, 2019Image Processing in JavaIntroduction This is a post about developing jtrack, an image processing application in Java using OpenCV that utilizes some new and upcoming Java language features. The application grabs animated images from GIPHY, runs them through an OpenCV frame processor using JavaCV (a Java wrapper to OpenCV/JNI) to detect a face and…Java7 min read
Published in Fn Project·Mar 4, 2019Serverless Jenkins Pipelines with Fn ProjectThis post was originally written by Carlos Sanchez on his blog. Thanks Carlos! The Jenkinsfile-Runner-Fn project is an Fn Project (a container-native, cloud-agnostic serverless platform) function to run Jenkins pipelines. It will process a GitHub webhook, git clone the repository and execute the Jenkinsfile in that git repository. …Docker2 min read
Published in Fn Project·Feb 13, 2019In-Home Serverless Voice ProcessingThis post is a guide to getting the Fn Project working with a Google Home device. Home devices are becoming increasingly pervasive, so for a talk I gave at NIC conference in Oslo last week, I combined a Google Home device with Fn and used Fn Flow to orchestrate a…Bots6 min read
Jan 29, 2019ProgrammingSummary: Our industry is going through a shift where more business solutions are built using serverless models and higher-abstraction services causing a change in developer skill sets. This will lead to low/no-code platforms further accelerating this shift. Whenever I ponder the future of serverless I end up in an existential…Serverless3 min read
Jan 11, 2019Creating the Boom 💥 EmojiFrom shipping a feature to winning a new customer to finding out you’re having a girl, the boom 💥 emoji has become lingua franca to concisely express one’s emotions. A few weeks ago I received an email from a former investor: "Did I make the BOOM icon in Slack? (Indirectly…Emoji3 min read
Jan 4, 2019Annual Review 2018Why the first Annual Review? Writing is hard. I never really know who I’m writing to, and thus, never start unless I’m complaining about people complaining about serverless. …Serverless7 min read
Dec 18, 2018The Inevitability of ServerlessIn the spirit of the holidays, for keynotes at Serverless Computing London and CodeMotion Madrid, I decided to reenact Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol, set upon a brief history of technology with visits (and bad acting) from Jacob Marley and the “Ghosts of Serverless Past, Present, and Yet-to-come”. Each visit tells…Serverless4 min read
Jun 17, 2018The Importance of DevOps to ServerlessDevOpsCon in Berlin was a pretty well attended European conference. The crowd was developer heavy (about 80% devs) with the rest being either pure ops or self-identified management. …Serverless3 min read
Published in Fn Project·Dec 22, 2017The Fn Project after 2 MonthsOn this second monthiversary since the open sourcing of the Fn Project live on stage at JavaOne in San Francisco, I thought I’d reflect on its momentum a bit. And coming off Thanksgiving and into the holidays, it’s always nice to remember what we’re thankful for and not forget to…Serverless5 min read
