Recently I was lucky enough to attend LeadingEng London, here’s what I learned. LeadingEng is a new conference aimed at VP/Director/CTO…

First, some background: Github Pages is a brilliant way to build static websites quickly and easily. However it is quite limited as it only…

Over the years we have introduced ever-more creative ways to run our software. Hand-crafted servers became configuration managed. Then VMs…

Today I have released an infrastructure automation tool, called DNSSync, for idempotently managing the state of DNS records. This is by no…

Years in the works, in December Amazon beat both Google and Microsoft to introducing support for IPv6 networking to their compute offering…

Today I set a new personal record: Ten full production deployments in a single day. All on a Friday afternoon, and at the end of it all I'm…

Update: October 28th 2018 When I talk about scalability here, it's a wider focus than avoiding hard bottlenecks in the form of networks. It…