Oct 17, 2018Getting around San FranciscoI‘ve been thinking a lot about mobility following the brouhaha over dock-less scooters in San Francisco. The first thing that really struck me is that if we were to start over on how we wanted to design our city, from scratch, we’d do almost everything differently, even decisions we’ve made…Cycling3 min readCycling3 min read
Mar 29, 2017My three favorite talks from SRECon17Two weeks ago I had the honor of speaking at SRECon17. I have a post coming with notes and video from my talk, but before I post that, I wanted to highlight three of my favorite talks from the conference. Lyft’s Envoy: Experiences Operating a Large Service Mesh The first talk I want to highlight is this excellent…Microservices2 min readMicroservices2 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Mar 9, 2017Configuration Management is an AntipatternRelease Engineering When I got my first job at a tech startup, this was literally our release procedure. I basically copied our code from cvs to production and restarted each webserver. Eventually, we hired a few new Systems Administrators and moved the process into a…DevOps11 min readDevOps11 min read
