Openstack Presentation
Last night I presented to the Los Angeles chapter of the UNIX Users Association of Southern California group. The event was held in Culver City, attended by 35 members of the UUASC and Openstack-LA...
View ArticleDoes SSD Power Savings Pay for Itself?
I wanted to determine how much power savings solid state storage (SSD) drives would offer over ordinary SATA hard drives. At first, I considered running a hardware experiment of my own, but changed my...
View ArticleSolum: Open Development From Day One
The way businesses build and consume open source software is radically changing and we’re fortunate to be at the vanguard of that change with the Solum project. Most open source projects start with the...
View ArticleUsing docker-machine on Rackspace Cloud
My co-worker Simon wrote a blog post about docker-machine, which allows for easy creation of machines in the cloud for running Docker containers. I decided to make a video screencast demonstrating how...
View ArticleOpenStack Magnum at OpenStack Summit
Today Timothy Prickett Morgan from The Platform published a good article in about our work on Magnum. Over 40 engineers from 18 different affiliations have contributed to Magnum since we began in...
View ArticleOpen Source Best Practices
Today OpenSource.com published an interview with me about an an upcoming talk I’m giving in Vancouver next week about applying proven best practices to open source software development. Community open...
View ArticleSoftware is a Liquid: The Future of the Cloud
This week I presented a session at Rackspace SOLVE in Los Angeles. I discuss the future of technology, as it pertains to the Cloud. I assert that software is actually a liquid, and explain how...
View ArticleSCALE 14x: Docker, Kubernetes, and Mesos: Compared.
I had the pleasure of giving this talk at SCaLE 14x. I was impressed with the audience at over 200 in attendance for this breakout session. It’s clear that containers are the new hotness, and we all...
View Article