Microsoft Screws Customers and its Own Advocates Alike
Microsoft’s recent licensing change for Windows Server is a great modern-day example of why so many businesses hated Microsoft two decades ago. Is this an aberration, or are they back to their old tricks?
Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer
I once turned down a job offer from AWS, who told me my reasoning was preposterous. Last week they did exactly what I was afraid of.
Observerless: The hottest new thing in monitoring you’re already doing
Settle the monitoring vs observability debate by adopting Observerless principles–it’s the the hottest new thing in monitoring you’re already doing.
CapitalOne’s CapitalTwo Day
CapitalOne’s data breach isn’t their fault, but they could have done more than they did to prevent it.
My CloudWatch Critique Didn’t Age Well
After my blistering CloudWatch critique last year, I realized I may have left one off: AWS listens, and often fixes shortcomings without fanfare. As it turns out, my critique has not aged well.
AWS New York Summit: What Did We Learn?
A whirlwind tour of the service releases from the 2019 AWS New York Summit.
Right Sizing Your Instances Is Nonsense
Many cost optimization companies will talk about right-sizing instances or VMs as if it were trivial. Many companies have no idea about what they speak.
4 Reasons Lyft is Smart to Pay AWS $300M
The internet lost its mind when it came out that Lyft is paying AWS $300 million dollars. I’ve got four reasons for you why they’re smart to do it.
Running Relational Databases on AWS
When it comes to running MySQL or PostgreSQL on top of AWS, you’ve got three realistic options to choose from. Let’s figure out what works best for you.
8 Things I’ve Learned Using an iPad for Presentations
I spent a year giving talks from an iPad instead of a laptop. Here are the lessons I learned along the way.