After speaking with Luke Kanies at OpsCamp, and reading his good and oft-quoted article “Golden Image or Foil Ball?“, I was thinking pretty hard about the use of images in our new automated infrastructure. He’s pretty against them. After careful consideration, however, I think judicious use of images is the right thing to do. My […]
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few months writing an enterprise application in PHP. Despite what some people may say, I believe that PHP is as secure or insecure as the developer who is writing the code. Anyway, I’m at the point in my development lifecycle where I decided that it was […]
It’s funny. When we recently started working on an upgrade of our Intranet social media platform, and we were trying to figure out how to meld the infrastructure-change-heavy operation with the need for devs, designers, and testers to be able to start working on the system before “three months from now,” we broached the idea […]
I was recently reading a good Cameron Purdy post where he talks about his eight theses regarding why startups or students can pull stuff off that large enterprise IT shops can’t. My summary/trenchant restatement of his points: Changing existing systems is harder than making a custom-built new one (version 2 is harder) IT veterans overcomplicate […]
I went to OpsCamp this last weekend here in Austin, a get-togther for Web operations folks specifically focusing on the cloud, and it was a great time! Here’s my after action report. The event invite said it was in the Spider House, a cool local coffee bar/normal bar. I hadn’t been there before, but other […]
