Matt Williams

Author's details

Name: Matt Williams
Date registered: August 9, 2008
URL: http://matt@matthewkwilliams.com

Biography

Matt Williams lives in Columbus, OH, in a house filled with computers, cats, books and fiber. Pursuing the goal of being a modern Renaissance person, he plays with his daughter, cooks, roasts coffee, reads, weaves, studies, and hacks, including crazy ideas like a Cloud in a Box. Docker has been an especial passion since June of 2013.

Latest posts

  1. Weaving with Light Pt. 1 — August 31, 2016
  2. Abusing HAProxy: Stupid Simple Easy Dashboards — June 24, 2016
  3. Rules for Operations — April 25, 2016
  4. DevOps Creed (Work in Progress) — April 24, 2016
  5. I am not a Mindreader: a mini-saga — April 11, 2016

Most commented posts

  1. Swarming Raspberry Pi – Part 1 — 13 comments
  2. Docker, Cgroups, Memory Constraints, and Java: A Cautionary Tale, or Here be Reapers (sometimes) — 9 comments
  3. Shrinking Docker Images — 7 comments
  4. Rails & JRuby in a Jar — 7 comments
  5. rspec, restful_authentication, and login_required — 6 comments

Author's posts listings

Jan 23

Nifty Things for Week 23 January 2015

Animation ‘Robot Chicken’ Animator Uses Nintendo Power Glove As Tool (Video) Career What’s a Pain Letter? – Human Workplace Forget Cover Letters – Write A Pain Letter, Instead! – Forbes How To Write Your Human-Voiced Resume – Forbes These Ten Zombie Phrases Are Killing Your Resume – Forbes Making MarkForged Lets You 3D Print With …

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Jan 16

Nifty Things for Week 16 January 2015

Quotes 10 Best Quotes from Linus Torvalds’ Keynote at LinuxCon Europe | Linux.com Open Source Pick a License, any License A Quick Guide to GPLv3 Copyleft and the GNU General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide Software Freedom Law Center Guide to GPL Compliance 2nd Edition SPDX — The Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX®) …

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Jan 13

It’s a Trap: Losing Faith in Protex

Protex snippet match does not behave as expected.

Jan 12

Part of what makes Open Source analysis “interesting”

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Open Source Zone. — Not Rod Serling Consider a …

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Jan 11

Desperately Seeking Open Source Governance

At the end of the day Open Source is here to stay. I believe that this is a good thing. However, there still needs to be some thought given to licensing obligations and how individual Open Source projects are used in an application. This governance needs to extend to work-for-hire produced for a company.

Jan 09

Nifty Things for Week 9 January 2015

Networking Indigo Virtual Switch Project Floodlight — Open Source SDN Cloud Make No Mistake: Mesosphere is Going After OpenStack 5 PaaS anti-patterns Cloud Computing Basics — Platform as a Service (PaaS) DevOps The Three Question DevOps Litmus Test Three More #DEVOPS Litmus Tests ARE YOU REALLY DOING DEVOPS? 8 PREREQUISITES YOU MUST CONSIDER DevOps Bookmarks …

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Jan 02

How to make Ubuntu Snappy no longer snappy

In wishing to test my Snappy Swarm — scripts to run Docker Swarm under Ubuntu Snappy (work in progress, but almost ready for a release) — I decided to try running the scripts inside a Virtualbox instance spawned by Vagrant. kvm doesn’t work inside virtualbox, so qemu was the way to go. I’m modifying the …

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Jan 02

Nifty Things for Week 2 Jan 2015

Tools Taiga — Open Source agile project management. Supports Scrum & Kanban out of the box. Open Daylight — Software defined networking Cloud OSv — Open Source Operating System designed for Cloud Mesosphere DCOS: One command control of data center services Life Lessons 5 Lessons I Learned at Ebay So You Want to be a …

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Dec 26

Advent Calendars for 2014

It’s a bit late, perhaps, but here’s a list of some of the advent calendars for 2014. QEMU Perl 6 Advent Calendar Catalyst Java Advent Calendar Gopher Academy 2014 Calendar Free Font Advent Calendar 24 Ways to Impress Your Friends A huge list of Advent Calendars can be found at Qiita. A “Planet” aggregator for …

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Dec 26

Nifty Things for Week of 26 December

Arts and Crafts Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as snowflakes? Genius Fun Stuff The 2014 Chemistry Advent Calendar Data Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Couchbase vs OrientDB vs Aerospike vs Neo4j vs Hypertable vs ElasticSearch vs Accumulo vs VoltDB vs Scalaris comparison generatedata.com — generate “random” datasets. It …

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