More backups
I previously discussed backing up this site. But it's my personal backup scheme that has saved me many times over the years, mostly from self-inflicted...
Watch those backups
Unless you were using this site during approximately 30 minutes late Sunday night, you wouldn't have noticed a thing. That's when I did my monthly...
Is agile dead?
Agile has proved it works when the conditions for it are ripe, but isn't ideal for all circumstances. Circumstances have changed in the past 2-3...
KTLA. Fuck.
I'm screaming at the screen "LOOK AT THE FUCKING FLAGS!" And they're talking about the humidity, and whether she's facing north, and whether she can...
New year, new place
The day after Christmas I loaded the cats into the car, turned in the key to my Seattle place, and headed east into a snowstorm....
Why you should deploy on Fridays
In the beginning, we always deployed on Fridays. By "we" I mean "the industry and handful of companies I was familiar with at the beginning...
Whither the mainframe
Mainframes are a highly opinionated solution to processing large quantities of sequential data reliably with high availability and at low cost per transaction....
Add friction to control buying
Crash spending control doesn't work any better than crash dieting. What works is friction and you need to add it back to the mix....
What Ahrefs might have done, and what finops has in common with bank robbery
I'll consider what a parellel-universe Ahrefs in a different reality timeline might have done in the cloud....
Ahrefs’ “billion dollar savings” and the “on-prem bigots”
"Buy long term, rent out short" is an effective strategy in every capital-intensive business. There's nothing wrong with short-term commitments if that's what the nature...