Enterprise Strategy

A Case Study on applying 100% automation to the Cloud to deliver software to users as often and as quickly as necessary. Read more…

NetFlix has written a lot about how they are effectively using Amazon Web Services to operate their infrastructure. I've found their development and use of the Chaos Monkey (and has even proposed its vision of a "Simian Army") to be particularly interesting. The basic premise is that all systems fail eventually so the Chaos Monkey Read more…

In a lot of ways, developer-time testing is a solved problem. Not to say that test-driven development is always easy. There are still plenty of people and technical issues to sort through when you decide to start testing your application aggressively. That said, I think that bringing testing into every aspect of your software development Read more…

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of essential characteristics, deployment models, and Read more…

With Elastic Operations you can expand and contract Operations Engineering experts – on demand. Read more…

A brief conversation between a developer and a Systems Engineer who still runs his systems like it was 1995. Read more…

The “impossible” four-minute mile was accomplished by Sir Roger Bannister on a windy day in May of 1954. Now you can do it too. It is not that complicated when you think about it: just run four consecutive quarter-mile sprints in under sixty seconds each. Okay, so maybe the actual execution isn’t trivial. But his Read more…

Hot off the "presses" or, perhaps, bit generator?, the Continuous Integration book has been released on Amazon's Kindle platform. I bought the Kindle 2 when it was first released a couple of months ago and am thoroughly enjoying it. Since I spend quite a bit of time focusing on automation in the CI book, I Read more…