NYC DevOps meeting next week: Measuring real-world DNS performance at Stack...
Next week's NYCDevOps Meetup speaker is my co-worker, Mark Henderson, on the topic of "Measuring real-world DNS performance at Stack Overflow". An in-depth look at how Stack Overflow records real-world...
View ArticleStackoverflow... but for questions about how to teach CS
My high school had only one computer science teacher. When she had a problem or question, she had no where to turn. I can't imagine how isolating and stressful that must have been....
View ArticleNYC DevOps meeting tomorrow (Tuesday)
Don't forget to RSVP by 1pm the day of the meeting: http://meetu.ps/39FgcP
View ArticleThe .feedback scam
Do you have feedback you'd like to give to Google, Facebook, StackOverflow, Inc., or Gandi? Now there's a website that will collect that feedback. Or... not. There is a new TLD called ".feedback". It...
View ArticleJudging books by their covers
The subtitle of some of my books have recently changed to better reflect the contents. As a result the book covers have been updated. Titles and covers are, essentially, a billboard for the contents....
View ArticleJuly NYCDevOps: Clos Networks for Datacenters
This month's NYCDevOps meetup speaker will be Martín Beauchamp talking about "Clos Networks for Datacenters". Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 Time: 6:30 PM Location: Stack Overflow HQ, 110 William St,...
View ArticleTom's speaking at Red Hat User Group Tuesday in Woodbridge, NJ
I'll be giving my talk "Stealing the Best Ideas from DevOps: A Guide for Sysadmins without Developers" at the Northern NJ Red Hat User Group tomorrow. If you are in the area, it would be great to see...
View ArticleFree book: "Expanding Pockets of Greatness"
Companies don't make their "DevOps transformation" over night. Usually there is a small team that adopts devops practices and then, after proving their success, the practices spread throughout the...
View ArticleStill time to RSVP to NYCDevOps...
This month's NYCDevOps meetup speaker will be Martín Beauchamp talking about "Clos Networks for Datacenters". You don't want to miss this! Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 Time: 6:30 PM Location: Stack...
View ArticleFour Ways to Make CS and IT Curricula More Immersive
My new column in ACM Queue is entitled, "Four Ways to Make CS and IT Curricula More Immersive". I rant and rail against the way that CS and IT is taught today and propose 4 ways CS educators can...
View ArticleGoogle's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret
Networking geeks: Google made a big announcements about BBR this week. Here's a technical deep-dive: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184 (Hint: if you would read ACM Queue like I keep telling...
View ArticleEvidence that Go makes it easy to get up to speed
Some recent PRs to the DNSControl Project casually mentioned that this was their first time writing Go code. That's amazing! When was the last time you saw someone say, "here's a major contribution to...
View ArticleFour Ways to Make CS and IT Curricula More Immersive
My new column in ACM Queue is entitled, "Four Ways to Make CS and IT Curricula More Immersive". I rant and rail against the way that CS and IT is taught today and propose 4 ways CS educators can...
View ArticleGoogle's BBR fixes TCP's dirty little secret
Networking geeks: Google made a big announcements about BBR this week. Here's a technical deep-dive: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184 (Hint: if you would read ACM Queue like I keep telling...
View ArticleEvidence that Go makes it easy to get up to speed
Some recent PRs to the DNSControl Project casually mentioned that this was their first time writing Go code. That's amazing! When was the last time you saw someone say, "here's a major contribution to...
View ArticleSeptember NYCDevOps: Habitat in Production (Seth Thomas)
This month's NYCDevOps meetup speaker will be Seth Thomas talking about "Habitat in Production". Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 Time: 6:30 PM Location: Stack Overflow HQ, 110 William St, 28th floor,...
View ArticleOctober NYCDevOps: Two meetings! DNSControl and Storing Secrets in the Cloud
We will have two meetings in October. The extra meeting will be on Mon, Oct 2 co-located with the VelocityNYC conference. You don't have to be registered for the conference to come to the meeting....
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Vendor jerks at tech conferences
(I've intentionally delayed posting this so that it wasn't clear which conference I'm talking about.) So... I'm at a conference. I take a break from the talks to walk around the vendor show. While most...
View ArticleDevOpsDays New York City 2018 Announced!
Save this date! January 18-19, 2018 will be the next DevOpsDays NYC! Save this date! Sadly there won't be a 2017 conference, but the 2018 conference is just around the corner. Mark your calendar!...
View ArticleMicroReview: Usenix LISA 2017
I'm a bit too tired to write a full review of Usenix LISA 2017, so let me just say that the content was excellent and the audience was the most diverse that I've seen at a mainstream sysadmin...
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