A Walk Within Boredom

Rewrites Are Dangerous

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April 24, 2016

I don’t think I’m the first one to ever say this, but rewriting software is perhaps one of the most risky things you can do in a project, not to mention a business.

They’re risky because it takes a human to transfer knowledge from one system to another that behave subtly differently. I’m about to show you exactly what I just caught myself doing while rewriting a part of my “super top-secret” project that I’ve been working on for a few years.Read More »Rewrites Are Dangerous

Scalability and WordPress (In Theory)

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March 26, 2016

When I first started down the path to the Clam project, I realized I could get sub-second responses when the db/cache/php/nginx were all collocated on the same machine. It literally removes almost all network effects. That being said, how could I use that to my advantage?Read More »Scalability and WordPress (In Theory)

Stop thinking about databases and infrastructure

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March 21, 2016

I’ve been playing with Microsoft’s Service Fabric the last couple of days and getting the gist of it. If you’ve never heard of it, that’s ok. I’m about to tell you all about it.Read More »Stop thinking about databases and infrastructure

Abandon Ship: Why I’m Leaving Docker

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March 19, 2016

After a year of getting deep into Docker, and just about every orchestration service from Docker Cloud, to Kubernetes, to Mesos, to Rancher, to Triton, to Open Shift, to ECS, and on and on … there’s one thing I’ve learned: They are all good for one or two things, but they’re not the full package yet.Read More »Abandon Ship: Why I’m Leaving Docker

Yet Another Rabbit Hole

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March 15, 2016

I feel like I’ve talked about this before. But, I’m going to talk about it again, because it is relevant.Read More »Yet Another Rabbit Hole

Dockerized WordPress With Delectable Press

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February 21, 2016

Dockerizing WordPress is no trivial task. My goal is for a multi-tenant setup — some being single sites, some being networks. The ability to “mutate” the application (ie, install plugins/themes) without actually mutating anything but the configuration. Something akin to compose/npm/paket/etc, where a simple file describes what you want installed and then it just happens.Read More »Dockerized WordPress With Delectable Press

Why Docker (The Not So Cliche Post)

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January 27, 2016

A year ago I set out to make WordPress super scalable. Not that the WordPress.com guys aren’t doing a good enough job or anything, but just because… Because WordPress is a great platform to build shit on. It’s easy for non-technical people to grok. It’s powerful to build things with (think actions and filters). But it’s built on PHP, and slow, and cpu hungry, and ram hungry. How do you scale it? I’ve found the answer …
Read More »Why Docker (The Not So Cliche Post)

Promises … WordPress In Docker

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January 16, 2016

Over a year ago, I promised to move this blog off of traditional hosting and into Docker. Holy crap, has that been a lot tougher than I thought…Read More »Promises … WordPress In Docker

State of Software

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January 9, 2016

I started writing software as a kid. I taught myself most of what I know, but I’ve learned over the years that I’m different than most self-taught engineers… I’ve read all the books I could get my hands on, I’ve stayed on top of new developments and found mentors. I feel like so many self-taught engineers come in just to sling code. They don’t take the time to learn the theories.Read More »State of Software

Just Ship It

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December 20, 2015

One of my favorite (coworker|mentor) and I were working on a mobile app at a startup. It was a tall order, but doable. We were still in the design phase, and we were working mostly on the front end. I asked him: Shouldn’t we be putting this much effort into the API?Read More »Just Ship It

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