Michael Gat

In infra, context gathering is the hard part. It is extremely difficult to estimate or put process around context gathering....

It's a nice little box that is useful for my limited Linux use case. It would also be useful as a small home server. The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Mainframes are a highly opinionated solution to processing large quantities of sequential data reliably with high availability and at low cost per transaction....

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....