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

Dec 25

Manifesto

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I believe that Craftsmanship is an essential part of Creation……..

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Dec 24

Merging Records with Uncertainty

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jruby, refactoring, ruby

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I’m in the process of revisiting and migrating a service I’d first written almost five years ago; one of the backend data sources has changed (drastically!) so I’m looking at refactoring as well as streamlining in the process — parsing the new backend takes longer than the old. Part of the reason for doing so …

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Dec 19

From the Trenches: Managing Organizational Change

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Communication, Management, philosophy

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Change is seldom fun, but management can make it good. Here are some things to do and not to do when managing change.

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Dec 19

Nifty Things for Week of December 19

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Nifty Things

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These are various and sundry interesting things I’ve come across during the week. Random The Icelandic word for raccoon is þvottabjörn which means “laundry bear.” — @SamuelMoen All the Pretty Things Christmas Experiments: Advent Calendar of Open Web Technologies Cloud Computing StackStorm vs. AWS Lambda: Event-Driven Computing vs. Event-Driven Operations AWS Lambda Announcing Snappy Ubuntu …

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Dec 18

Avoid Screaming Customer Management Protocol and Get More Sleep

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Columbus Code Camp, philosophy, Presentations

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Screaming customers are the path to the dark side. Screaming customers lead to phone calls. Phone calls lead to upset managers. Upset managers lead to insomnia. — Yoda A recent survey from Enterprise Management Associates identified user phone calls, also known as Screaming Customer Management Protocol (SCMP), as the most common way — by a …

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Dec 18

Using Docker Registry with Riak-CS

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cloud computing, Docker, infrastructure

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Intro As a proof of concept, this uses the docker hectcastro/riak-cs container to create the riak-cs cluster. Some flavour of linux with a recent Docker version is assumed. Riak-CS Pull the github repository; it has a Makefile and scripts to bring up the cluster and test it. It can set up a haproxy container in …

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Nov 19

Twelve Lessons Learned from a Startup Weekend

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life hacking, philosophy

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This past weekend I participated in my first Startup Weekend Columbus. During the course of which we built Fairflo, a marketplace for fair-trade items. The front end can use some work, but at the end of the weekend we had a fully functioning e-commerce site. I’ll write about the infrastructure separately, but as an aside …

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Nov 14

Free Cloud Resources

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cloud, cloud computing, infrastructure, tips

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This is a quick list of “free” cloud resources. Mirantis Openstack Express (Developer) Rackspace Developer + Google Cloud Platform Trial Openshift Free Elephant Postgres (free) Redis Cloud ClearDB (mysql) Stackato Cluster (up to 20GB)

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Oct 29

First do no harm

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If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. — Dalai Lama Over the past couple of years I’ve been trying to put into words my thoughts regarding the type of company where I’d like to work. There are companies I would not consider working for — their …

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Sep 28

Go executables are statically linked, except when they are not.

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cloud computing, CoreOS, Docker, etcd, golang, Uncategorized

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Generally GO executables are advertised as statically linked.

And they are, mostly, except for those times where they aren’t.

This is about one of those times, and what I discovered in the process.

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