Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Bad Cloud Strategy
It is likely that you are using a public cloud provider for something, unless your initials are "DHH." It's something you must have a strategy...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Not considering scale
The scale of your technical operations/budget places a hard limit on how much you can afford to spend on cost management. Any efforts you make...
Anti-Patterns in Tech Cost Management: Intro
Engineering is where science meets economics. In the tech world, this means that we as engineers are primarily concerned with using scientific and logical tools...
SCaLE 21x is coming!
I'll be running a track for the SoCal Linux Expo (aka "SCaLE"), which has been my go-to favorite tech conference for many years. I remained...
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....
Starting over
I’m feeling ready to write again, and I’ve set up this new environment to do it in....
Moving WordPress (4) – SSL, themes, etc.
With the site(s) kind of up and running, I set about installing the Let's Encrypt Certbot for SSL support. Then I set up themes and...
Moving WordPress (3) – database and content
Almost all WordPress and related instructions assume you are using a "standard" hosting service... I was not doing this....
Moving WordPress (2) – AWS setup
The AWS setup was the easy part. That should have been no surprise, as I've spent lots of time with AWS but very little time...