Anti-Patterns in tech costing
I recently gave another presentation for the Vancouver software development managers. Not my greatest, but I still like the idea and it needs to be...
My most important lesson
Our customers don’t come to us because we have the best technology, they come to us because we provide a better value....
Lessons from the top of a snowy hill
Things are rather treacherous out there. In my neighborhood, we have new-fallen (unplowed) snow, on top of wet (now frozen) fallen, partly-decayed, slippery leaves that...
Don’t buy tech from somebody you meet in Church
If the answer to why you should do business with somebody is ever "we're part of the same group, you can trust me," then you...
Software is hard
A horribly embarrassing software disaster happened on Monday. It was caused by a bad certificate, which is a mechanism used to verify and authenticate a...
SCE to AUX
DevOps Lessons from Apollo 12. 90 Seconds that defined what it means to do good work under pressure....
Beyond Moore’s Law and Beyond LA…
Last night I gave the last presentation I will give before I leave LA for good next week, as I’m moving to Seattle to join...
AWS, AWS, and More AWS
It's been a summer of AWS for me....
To Optimize, or Not?
You should be forced to write efficient code and know how to do it in situations where it matters. You should also be able to...
Low-level understanding matters
If you haven't figured out how to get the most out of what you already have, don't ask me for more RAM/disk/CPU or anything else....