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Promises … WordPress In Docker
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…
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State of Software
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 […]
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Just Ship It
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?
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I’m a Robot
This evening, while sitting on the couch with my laptop, I challenged my wife to “program me” to pick up one of our son’s toys across the room. She gave me the “are you crazy look” and I explained that it would show her what it was like to program a computer. Here are the […]
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Data Can’t Drive Your Business, Veers Into Oncoming Competition
Data can tell you who to sell to, it can tell you when to sell a certain product, it can tell you whether you should launch a product, and when to bail out of a business. Data can answer the questions: who, what, when and where. However, data cannot tell you how or why. That’s […]
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I Want To Live Forever, and You Do Too : A Rant
Someday, my father is going to die. I’m not looking forward to it, but it has to happen eventually. Someday, I will die and my son will be left with my world. I’m not looking forward to that either. If my wife and I were to die today, my son would have to wait at […]
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Building Deis (but not really)
So, it’s been a fun couple of weeks. I’ve played with mesos/marathon for quite a bit trying to build something that was simple, easy to deploy from development, highly available, and scalable. What I started to realize while putting together Ceph… I’m building Deis. After talking to the guys working on the Deis project, I […]
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Holy Crap Dockers, Deis’s, Kubes and Mesos
After nearly a month of experimenting with all kinds of Docker management engines, for lack of a better term, I think I’ve decided what I’m going to go with. Well almost. The entire point of this project is to figure out how to excessively scale WordPress and then move on to another platform that’s completely […]
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A Story From The Past
It started as a normal day, well, as normal as any snow day could be. Nothing but chores to do and three siblings running around the house. My dad was in the basement working, and my mother was frustrated with her four excited children, with a day off from school. As the day wound down, and the sun started to set, I put on my snow gear: some sneakers, a ski jacket, sweat pants under some jeans, light sunglasses for the snow, and gloves.
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What’s The Difference?
For most – if not all – of my career, I’ve focused on small businesses and startups. The challenges that need to be solved are the best, and while they always go through the same growing pains, they always tend to find new ways of solving them.